Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores
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.
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John Hasler
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