> ... I have a program which
>does just printf(), fork(), printf() and it executes (from
>the command line) just fine so it isn't fork() itself
>unless fork() for some reason takes a long time if it is a
>big program like APACHE doing the fork() instead of a
>little test program.

Well, I would probably expect a very small program to fork()
much more efficiently than a large program like httpd, because
the large program would probably have much more resourced that
have to be allocated/cloned during the fork() event.

In the case of a CGI shell script, there would then also be
the child httpd process calling exec() to invoke the /bin/sh
program code in place, which might also be far from small.

You might want to try a little compiled test program instead
of the CGI shell script to see if that is more efficient in
the CGI context. The program could do just a few write() calls
similar to the echo statements of the shell script.

Lars.

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