On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Living Dead wrote:
> To put it in another way:
> If I allocate 32Mb of memory in the parent process,
> then I call fork(), the amount of memory needed for
> both parent and child is 64Mb?
The way Linux works, no, each child doesn't make a full copy in memory.
Linux uses a copy-on-write method, so once the parent or the child
"dirty" a page in memory, the page (and only that page) is duplicated.
thornton
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