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john@nlc.net.au (John Saunders) wrote:

>I'm after some info about shared libraries. In the case of a library X
>X, if application A and B both use it, is there any memory use advantage
>over making X shared instead of a link library? I know there is a disk
>space advantage and suspect there may be a memory advantage. In the case
>were process B is a child process of A that hasn't exec'ed, is there
>any memory advantage?

>If you want to know why I'm asking this. I have a HTTP server that can
>fork dozens of child processes to handle requests. I want to know if I
>can get better memory sharing by moving parts of the server into shared
>libraries.

The child process should just share its code pages with
the parent process. This means using shared lib in this
situation won't help you at all. It'd be a different story
if they weren't the same program.


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Kent Tong
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