Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:31:39 -0400 (EDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: process creation time increases linearly with shmem |
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On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Nick Piggin wrote:
> fork() can be changed so as not to set up page tables for > MAP_SHARED mappings. I think that has other tradeoffs like > initially causing several unavoidable faults reading > libraries and program text.
Actually, libraries and program text are usually mapped MAP_PRIVATE, so those would still be copied.
Skipping MAP_SHARED in fork() sounds like a good idea to me...
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