On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 22:12 +0200, Ernst Rohlicek jun. wrote: > As I see it, there are a few options: > > - Not saving caps and re-issuing caps every machine reboot and server > restart; processes are giving their children the caps they need. > - Reconstruct environment. > - Save all (if I remember correctly, EROS was doing this continuously > in the background). > > The third has a performance impact; though not as big as it is > subjectively assumed in the first moment, it is still there and I'm > still unsure what the advantages are...
There is a performance impact to save *anything*. The measurements show that the EROS implementation is *faster* than a conventional file system approach in normal use. There is a research paper analyzing this and explaining why it is true. shap _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
