Re: Memory management in Kernel 2.4.x

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Mon May 27 2002 - 16:34:00 EST


Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> 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.
>

Doesn't help. exec() should fail.

        -hpa

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