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No, you don't need overcommit for COW fork. You can fully commit the writable pages of the new process. Yes, that uses a bit of pagefile space, but disk space i
by quotemstr 11y ago
No, you don't need overcommit for COW fork. You can fully commit the writable pages of the new process. Yes, that uses a bit of pagefile space, but disk space is cheap, and this approach works fine. You can (and should, if you care about robustness) turn off overcommit on Linux too.