Christopher K Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|    ... This is the simplest fix, though it's also
|    the most wasteful of memory (and/or swap space allocation, depending
|    on how your system does copy-on-write and its page size and so on).

I don't think copy-on-write is a factor.  Demand paging, like every
Unix has had for years and years and years should take care of the
whole issue.  If you don't touch a page, it doesn't consume RAM, just
backing store, which is not in short supply.

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