#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use Linux::Smaps; $SIG{CHLD} = sub { waitpid(-1, 1) }; # comment this block { my %h; # pre-growth PL_strtab hash, kind of: keys %$PL_strtab = 2_000_000; foreach my $x (1 .. 2_000_000) { $h{$x} = undef; } } my $pid = fork // die "Cannot fork: $!"; unless ($pid) { # child my $s = Linux::Smaps->new($$)->all; my $before = $s->shared_clean + $s->shared_dirty; { my %h; foreach my $x (1 .. 2_000_000) { $h{$x} = undef; } } my $s2 = Linux::Smaps->new($$)->all; my $after = $s2->shared_clean + $s2->shared_dirty; warn 'COPY-ON-WRITE: ' . ($before - $after) . ' KB'; exit 0; } sleep 1000; print "DONE\n";