No, that's not how it works. The process table gets duplicated and copy-on-write takes care of the pages. As long as they are identical they will be shared, there is no way that 10GB of RAM will be allocated to the forked process and that all of the data will be copied.
No, that's not how it works. The process table gets duplicated and copy-on-write takes care of the pages. As long as they are identical they will be shared, there is no way that 10GB of RAM will be allocated to the forked process and that all of the data will be copied.