From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 18 18:49:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA16238 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 18:49:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA16233 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 18:49:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA11744; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 18:45:08 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199606190145.SAA11744@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: vfork cow? To: langfod@dihelix.com (David Langford) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 18:45:08 -0700 (MST) Cc: sef@kithrup.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org, michaelh@cet.co.jp In-Reply-To: <199606180404.SAA09946@caliban.dihelix.com> from "David Langford" at Jun 17, 96 06:04:38 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >Keith or Kirk mentioned, at one point, possibly going back to the old > >semantics; this is useful for large-memory processes, depending on the > >implementation. (John and David just did some work to improve pmap_copy, > >which helps address this issue. However, let's get a few processes with > >2GBytes of address space active, and see how well it does ;).) > > > >Sean. > > Um. Try running Altavista on you machine ..... :) Altavista runs on FreeBSD?!?!?!?!?!?!? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.