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fork() and close()-difference in %CPU system usage or?!
Is there a difference in sys CPU% between fork and close? Or this is just the application design problem? The application continuously receives messages spawning a child (fork()) for each new message. The message is processed and after sending a confirmation it closes the socket. It uses a...
