From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2007-02-04T23:05:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Using fork to conserve memory

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> i wonder if people realize the size of a process is reported in virtual memory
> and not in actual memory usage?  in the case of something like rails tons of
> the memory will be shared in the page cache.

Really? if I remember correctly, rails caching can work with a memory-store 
which is not shared between processes, or a drb/memcached store which is not a 
part of the process size.

But oh well, this isn't the rails list.

Daniel