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Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 17:33:06 -0400
From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: Memory management in Kernel 2.4.x
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On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 02:22:22PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Well, if you can't fork a new process because that would push you into
> overcommit, then you usually can't actually do anything useful on the
> machine.

Just use vfork or clone + exec.  It's faster and uses less memory.

		-ben
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