<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - Fork is a hard cost operation. > > To get an idea how hard fork() is for us, Gianluca did a simple test, > on GNU/Hurd he got 312 forks/second, and on the same machine but in > GNU/Linux, he got 8170 forks/second.
Roland and I many years ago came to the conclusion that the primary cost of fork is the cost of scanning and duplicating the port space of the task correctly. We put on the task list the addition of a new kernel RPC that would do the main job of that duplication in a single context switch. Thomas _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
