> It could have been the "old" accounting. Solaris 10 > changed a lot of that and made things like microstate > accounting on by default, thus, possibly eliminating > the kind of bottlenecks the instructor was referring > to. More on that here: > http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock/entry/microstate_accounting_in_solaris_10
data would be helpful. nobody here has shown any version of solaris to be slow forking, much less that it is slow forking because of accounting. my dimly-remembered data support the conclusion that the now-ancient 670mp had a poor mmu, not that solaris was good or bad. i couldn't find rob's original email online, so i put it up. http://www.quanstro.net/plan9/p9fork.txt - erik
