I agree: fork is fast, cheap and easy. If you're spawning something for significant work it tends to be in the noise. Linux kernel uses 8k stacks (TBH, it's be

I agree: fork is fast, cheap and easy. If you're spawning something for significant work it tends to be in the noise. Linux kernel uses 8k stacks (TBH, it's been a while), but there's also some copy-on-write overhead. Still, this is not the C10k problem...