Stas Bekman wrote: > Hmm, when a new process starts it shares *everything* with the parent. > Why do you say that it's not?
It doesn't share everything with the parent. As soon as it forks there is unshared memory, and after the first request it handles there is usually more. Over time, the average amount of shared memory among child processes seems to gradually decrease. Restarting fixes this. - Perrin