Re: help with huge memory consumption??

"David Schwartz" <davids@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

[...]

It costs some time to create a process, and threads don't have that
time, so threads must be better.

And my response is that that when talking about the performance of a
multi-threaded approach versus a multi-process approach, it is
nonsensical to directly compare the cost of creating a thread to the
cost of creating a process.

It is fairly nonsensical, because on Linux, process and thread
creation costs do not (and cannot) differ significantly. The main
difference will be that creating a new process requires copying the
page tables of the old process.
.

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