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Ghosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designsGhosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designsPosted Dec 6, 2010 11:58 UTC (Mon) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935)In reply to: Ghosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designs by dlang Parent article: Ghosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designs
Yes, I've seen forking take 60% of CPU (that was forking 4 child processes per second from a +2 GB process). Using fork to vfork, or equivalently switching to posix_spawn, brought it down to 3-4%.
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