Eric Wong <normalper...@yhbt.net> writes: > How big is the parent process which forks the git commands? On Linux at > least, fork() performance is negatively impacted by parent process > memory size.
Huh. I thought with the advent of demand-paging, at the very least with copy-on-write, this was supposed to be sort of a non-issue. The old original UNIX version, in contrast, consisted of swapping out the current process without removing the in-memory copy. But since the in-memory copy then did the exec call and since usually the exec call was happy about every page of free memory (we _are_ talking about something like 64kB of total available memory here), that tended to work reasonably well. -- David Kastrup -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
