On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:53:30PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> We scratched our heads about what in the world the kernel was doing
> for 42ms per fork. Even on a Sun 3/50, that's a lot of cycles.
>
> This was a long time ago, but it's some actual measurements.
Hmm. Weird. If it had been doing an exec, it would have been easy to
point the finger at the run time loader, but if all you did was fork?
My guess was reference counting pages in the shared libraries. Did you
ever find out where the time went?
- Dan C.
