Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:21:30 -0400 | | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | | Subject | Re: Fork timing numbers for shared page tables |
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On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 02:59:07PM -0500, Dave McCracken wrote: > I don't know why exec introduces a small penalty for small tasks. I'm > working on some optimizations that might help.
Compare against vfork() to see what kind of best case is possible, and how much of the overhead in small tasks is just in non-vm overhead.
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