alt Hacker Newsredis uses the copy-on-write property of fork() to implement saving
which is elegant and completely legitimate
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loeg • last Friday at 8:41 PM
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redis uses the copy-on-write property of fork() to implement saving
which is elegant and completely legitimate
Can you elaborate on how this comment is connected to the article?
How does fork() work with vm.overcommit=2?
A forked process would assume memory is already allocated, but I guess it would fail when writing to it as if vm.overcommit is set to 0 or 1.