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Subject: Re: Superpages on amd64 FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE
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Linda Messerschmidt <linda.messerschmidt@gmail.com> writes:
> Unfortunately, we have to rotate the logs of this process once per
> day.  When we do, it fork()s and exec()s about 16-20 child processes
> as helpers.

s/fork/vfork/ and you should be fine.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no