Daniil Cherednik wrote:
After all that I was trying to compare perfomance of return from fork() in Linux and FreeBSD (see http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2011-October/036705.html) and fork() in FreeBSD was slower.
our fork() differs from linux fork() in handling parent and child memory pages, and ours is generally slower, that's why sphinxsearch (prior to 1.1 with its prefork model) was unusable on FreeBSD under moderate and heavy load, too many forks %)
-- SY, Marat
