Process creation in Debian Sparc

[Jersey Man <jersey_m@yahoo.com>]

Wondering if anyone has any insights

I have a simple bash script which spawns many (~1000) processes in a while loop - each goes into background
On Debian/Sparc the time taken for each iteration gets delayed every loop

The same script on X64/RHEL simply flies... Are there any throttling limits on Debian which may be slowing process creation. Getting a 1000 such process takes over an 1 1/2 on Debian/Sparc while on the X64 server it takes about 1/3 the time. Both servers have identical memory and the CPUs are Niagara T1 vs XEON 4 CPU

Or is the XEON so much faster?



real    0m1.250s
user    0m1.232s
sys    0m0.012s
Background mode - PID=[16619]

real    0m1.377s
user    0m1.224s
sys    0m0.028s
Background mode - PID=[16628]

real    0m1.323s
user    0m1.232s
sys    0m0.020s
Background mode - PID=[16637]

...

real    0m1.640s
user    0m1.232s
sys    0m0.016s
Background mode - PID=[16674]

real    0m1.515s
user    0m1.236s
sys    0m0.012s
Background mode - PID=[16683]

...

real    0m1.934s
user    0m1.236s
sys    0m0.012s
Background mode - PID=[16773]

real    0m2.132s
user    0m1.224s
sys    0m0.024s
Background mode - PID=[16782]

real    0m2.134s
user    0m1.216s
sys    0m0.028s
Background mode - PID=[16791]

....

real    0m3.426s
user    0m1.232s
sys    0m0.016s
Background mode - PID=[17125]

...

real    0m4.112s
user    0m1.236s
sys    0m0.012s
Background mode - PID=[17252]