Help Measuring Fork/Exec Overhead

Doug Gwyn <gwyn> gwyn at brl-tgr.ARPA
Fri Aug 30 05:24:24 AEST 1985


Aah, Guy was talking about systems where the entire data space is one
segment.  I thought he meant PDP-11 or Gould-like systems.

By the way, folks who think that demand paging is always better than
partial swapping should implement a demand paging UNIX on a PDP-11/70
and measure its typical performance.  (Yes, this is possible.)



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