> In response to the original post: The kernel's ELF linker/loader for
> executables will share the text and read-only segments for static
> executables.
Thanks, this is what I was looking for - I kind of thought it worked that
way but just wanted to check, (because if not I am wasting a lot of
> If I have an executable which is staticly linked with many copies
> of it running (a CGI script in fact), will all those copies share
> the text segment of the executable on the disc, or will it actually
> use up real memory resource with many copies of the executable ? I
> have been assuming th
Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
This reminds me: it sure would be useful if we had something like
Solaris's pmap(1) on FreeBSD.
In response to the original post: The kernel's ELF linker/loader for
executables will share the text and read-only segments for static
executables.
We already have someth
Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> Pete French wrote:
> > If I have an executable which is staticly linked with many copies
> > of it running (a CGI script in fact), will all those copies share
> > the text segment of the executable on the disc, or will it actually
> > use up real memory resource with m
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 03:31:04PM +0100, Pete French wrote:
> If I have an executable which is staticly linked with many copies
> of it running (a CGI script in fact), will all those copies share
> the text segment of the executable on the disc, or will it actually
> use up real memory resource wi
