[Asterisk-Users] Nested MySQL Commands

[Mike Fedyk]

Chris Albertson wrote:

>Under Linux (and other OSes) It's not as bad as that.  Even with
>128 Perl processes running there is only one copy of the Perl
>interpeter in memory.  Each of the 128 running processes would
>have it's own copy of only it's data segments.  With Perl
>already in memory the biggest system overhead would be
>process creation.
>
>The best design is the one that minimizes the number of
>process that the kernel has to create.  Notice that this is
>why the Apache Perl modual is so much faster than using
>Perl from a CGI script
>
You will get the best usage of shared pages if all child interpreted 
processes fork off of one parent process.  That way they can share as 
many data pages as possible also.

If they don't fork off of each other, then a new copy of the interpreter 
will be put into memory.  There will be some shared CoW pages between 
them, but not nearly as many when compared forking off of a common pool 
of processes.