Re: Copy-on-write fork

2002-10-22 Thread Sven Köhler
Repeat after me: don't open old threads. oops ... didn't know that rule after which time is a thread an old thread? However I'll let you off this once, because you are using a newsreader and I've made the same mistake before. Thx If you think copy on write is faster, then feel free to do s

RE: Copy-on-write fork

2002-10-21 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> Repeat after me: don't open old threads. > However I'll let you off this once, because you are using a newsreader and > I've made the same mistake before. BTW: As long as it's open, I did try to compile and link with the libfork.a you(?) sent me, to try it on XP, and got nowhere. I couldn't li

RE: Copy-on-write fork

2002-10-21 Thread Chris January
> > A test program and statistics are shown below which clearly > show Cygwin's > > fork implementation in the lead. > > how much memory did your programs allocate prior to fork()ing? > copy-on-write might only apply to applications with high memory-usage. > > another thing i didn't understand was,

Re: Copy-on-write fork

2002-10-21 Thread Sven Köhler
A test program and statistics are shown below which clearly show Cygwin's fork implementation in the lead. how much memory did your programs allocate prior to fork()ing? copy-on-write might only apply to applications with high memory-usage. another thing i didn't understand was, why you took a t

RE: Copy-on-write fork

2002-04-19 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Chris January [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 12:07 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Copy-on-write fork > > > This is mainly a question aimed at Christopher Faylor, but > maybe someone else knows the answer. My question is

RE: Copy-on-write fork

2002-04-19 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
cgf wrote: > I assume that one possible reason is that the copy-on-write fork may be > somehow bypassing normal in-memory sharing of text segments but I never > knew for sure. > Have either of you tried this comparison on XP, to see if it's any different there? I'm running XP here, if Chris J.

Re: Copy-on-write fork

2002-04-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 03:06:55AM +0100, Chris January wrote: >This is mainly a question aimed at Christopher Faylor, but maybe someone >else knows the answer. >My question is, with regard to Chris's post "Re: copy-on-write (oh well)" >[http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2000-07/msg00026.