I just want to perform a test, that answers a question: How much resources would be occupied totally if I run following code from a program that occupies, say, 1G of memory itself? Here is the code: 
unless (fork) {
    unless (fork) {
        `myScript.pl PARAM1 PARAM2 PARAM3`;
        exit 0;
    }
    exit 0;
}
wait;

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myScript.pl itself occupies a little of resources. I'm just afraid that when I fork() a program that occupies 1G of memory it would lead to elseone 1G of memory occupied. Could anyone tell me either how to make a program occupy a lot of memory or answer a question above? Thanks in advance. PS I work under Linux

In reply to How can I make my program occupying a lot of memory (sic!)? by Doctrin

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