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Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:20:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: sidc7 <siddhartha.chhabra@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: COW optimization on exec
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> exec throws out all those pages, so go away without ever having been
> copied. However it still costs memory CPU time TLB flushes etc in order
> to set up the COW optimisation in the first place, so if you are doing
> fork/exec, then I think vfork is the better option.


Thanks once again, if I do something like creating an array spanning over
multiple pages, and then do a fork and in the child or the parent, write to
the array elements, this should result in an actual cow, where the OS will
actually do a copy of the pages as well in addition to the overhead required
for setting up COW in the first place?

Thanks


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