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Ok, I'll bite... (Score:1)
That way, if you have 50 instances of your huge portal architecture running, you only take the memory hit once (or most of it only once).
Granted - Linux w/vm overcommit and Apache prefork emulates this behavior somewhat; it would be nice, though, if the shared memory didn't depend on fork()'s CoW semantics.
thanks! (Score:1)