> 2. We could overlook the memory usage increase and pretend that we have enough memory, and only really panic if the second process truly needs its own 10GB RAM that we don't have. That's what Linux does
"pretend" → share the memory and hope most of it will be read-only or unallocated eventually; "truly needs to own" → CoW
> 2. We could overlook the memory usage increase and pretend that we have enough memory, and only really panic if the second process truly needs its own 10GB RAM that we don't have. That's what Linux does
"pretend" → share the memory and hope most of it will be read-only or unallocated eventually; "truly needs to own" → CoW