Perrin Harkins wrote: > 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.
What you are saying is that when the server is started afresh, the newly started child processes share more memory with the parent, than newly started child processes some time later. Am I correct? __________________________________________________________________ Stas Bekman JAm_pH ------> Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide ---> http://perl.apache.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com
