Momchil Velikov wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net> writes:
[...]
> Daniel> It's only touching the ptes on tables that are actually used, so if a parent
> Daniel> with a massive amount of mapped memory forks a child that only instantiates
> Daniel> a small portion of it (common situation) then the saving is pretty big.
>
> Umm, all the ptes af the parent ought to be made COW, no ?
Sure. But quite a few of them may be COW already, if the parent
itself is a result of some earlier fork.
Helge Hafting
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