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		saagarjha on Oct 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unfork() > If you assume each process needs, say, 16MB of contiguous space Unfortunately I’m not sure that’s a good assumption, due to the stack and heap needing to exist even for statically-linked binaries.

smallnamespace on Oct 30, 2019 [–]

Yes, but simply replace with 'average number of allocations * number of processes' and * 'average size of allocation'

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