Re: panel sugguestion

[Michael Lausch <mla gams co at>]

>>>>> "is" == Idan Sofer <sofer@ibm.net>
>>>>> wrote the following on Sun, 24 Jan 1999 23:16:27 +0000 (GMT)

is> today i noticed that when the panel has the execute a program, it
is> works through a fork()/exec() procedure.

is> the problem is that the panel often takes a number of MB in
is> memory(when having big drawers for example), sometimes > 4MB.

that's no problem with a reasonable modern unix system. when a process 
fork()s, the memory used in the child process is marked `copy on
write' so that the memory page only needs to be copied (and RAM
allocated) when the child proces writes something in thos page. since
the code between a fork() and an exec() is usually short, not very
much memory needs to be copied.
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