On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 10:07 +0100, Charles Forsyth wrote: > > I could imagine that databases use mmap() havily > > it's a little mystery for me why they would do that since it's slower (or > ought to be),
slower compared to what? I'd expect the biggest slowdown for read()/write() be not the price of a syscall, but what you pay for copying data in/out of the kernel. With mmap() there's no copying. Thanks, Roman.
