Comment by cylemons
19 hours ago
> If you're not overcommiting, that fork will fail, because total memory consumption will be 1200 MB which is more than 1GB. That somewhat restricts program design.
Does this accounting apply to vfork as well?
19 hours ago
> If you're not overcommiting, that fork will fail, because total memory consumption will be 1200 MB which is more than 1GB. That somewhat restricts program design.
Does this accounting apply to vfork as well?
Correct: it does NOT apply to vfork().