> I want to fork a process, but my scope has lots of stuff that the child > won't need. Is it possible to clean the current environment of cruft so it > is collected and freed? Basically I want it to go something like this. > This is my first forking Python app, by the way:
I'm not an expert of this - but if all the reason you want to do this are memory concerns, AFAIK forking will only make a copy of those memory-pages that are actually written to by the forked process - for efficiency reasons. And even if that wasn't the case: I think as long as you don't run into memory-troubles, don't do it. Its complex, flaky and thus an unnecessary source of failure. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
