Re: per-process shared information

William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-15T20:41:36Z

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:47:13AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> workloads, rather it's known up-front that no fork()-based COW sharing
>> is going on in Oracle's case, so in this case, "anonymous" very happily
>> corresponds to "process-private". [..]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 09:23:13PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Ok fine.

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:47:13AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> [..] In fact, the /proc/ changes to report
>> threads only under the directory hierarchy of some distinguished thread
>> assists in this estimation effort.

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 09:23:13PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> do you use threads now?

I believe using threads to some extent has been an option for some time,
though not a commonly used one on Linux.

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