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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87sjwz53q4....@thumper.dhh.gt.org