Re: ten thousand small processes

From: D. J. Bernstein (djb_at_cr.yp.to)
Date: 06/26/03

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    Date: 26 Jun 2003 21:26:59 -0000
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    Bakul Shah writes:
    > Instead of complaining about wasting 78 megabytes and arguing
    > about why various proposed solutions fall short and why your
    > way is the best, why don't you come up with a patch that
    > saves space for small programs?

    Funny. Seems to me that I keep making concrete suggestions---including a
    detailed proposal for giving more space to malloc()---and the answer is
    consistently ``We really don't care about per-process overhead.'' What's
    the benefit of a patch for people who don't even see the problem?

    ---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
    Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
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