On 27-Nov-2001 Andrey Pugachev wrote: > I am just curious, can FreeBSD kernel perform function called copy-on-write > pages in Windows NT world? This is tricky feature of NT memory manager. When > several processes (or threads) allocate identical write-enabled memory > pages, system does not allocate physical memory for each process data at > once. The NT kernel allocates only one copy of write-enabled memory region.
FreeBSD does support COW when doing things like loading shared libraries and forking processes. I don't have an exact list or anything, but rather just remembering things mentioned on lists etc.. Maybe worth looking in the list archives for a more authorative answer. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
