Re: Re: star quitting when changing tapes

[email protected] wrote:

> > But you are right, Linux does not keep track of available total
> > memory and allows programs to allocate memory although memory is
> > already no longer available.
>
> Or in contrary it could be memory waste due to duplication by
> fork(). I remember to have suffered from this in the past (Munix,
> IRIX) and that this has been given up for more optimistic strategies.
> man 2 fork of my Linux says it's copy-on-write (unconditionally)
> but maybe there is some kernel configuration option to force real
> oldfashioned forking.

Sun did invent this copy-on-write fork and Solaris does not have the
problem you see on Linux.



> Is there any forking involved in star's volume change ?

no
Jörg

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