Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
However, look at this:
avg fork parent: 0.000148
avg fork child: 0.004091
(rough rough numbers, will be off if there are multiple processes
running concurrently)
Okay, less rough numbers:
122991 104/s fork
avg fork parent: 0.000157
avg fork child: 0.002563
so if we assume that the parent always waits for the child, it'll take 0.267
seconds per second (in average) to fork? That means 1/4 of the time is just
spent until the child start running.
the above numbers include vfork, these are without:
avg fork parent: 0.000144
avg fork child: 0.002556
same, basically. Maybe teaching sh(1) to use vfork could give some performance
improvement?
cheers
simon
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