Bob writes:
> They do consume memory and cpu scheduling queue resources.
I wrote:
> Very little, due to shared memory and copy-on-write.

Stan writes:
> In this case I don't think all that much memory is shared.  Each
> process' data portion is different as each processes a different
> picture file.

I was referring to pre-forking.  Pre-forked processes share text and
also share data while waiting for work.  Thus they consume little in the
way of resources until they have something to do.
-- 
John Hasler


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