Re: [OT]: mmap (Was: Templating System (preview Embperl 2.0))

[Matt Sergeant]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Paul J. Lucas wrote:

> > This is the quote from "Philip and Alex..." that I was talking about
> > earlier. I don't know if its relevant or not:
> > 
> > They replied "NaviServer uses memory-mapped file I/O on single-processor
> > machines but automatically configures itself to use operating system read on
> > multi-CPU machines so as to reduce shared memory contention."
> 
>       mmap(2) is *supposed* to share memory when read-only which is
>       what's beign done for HTML file reads, so I don't understand
>       what "contention" there could possibly be.
> 
>       Additionally, any OS that doesn't get mmap right is severly
>       broken and shouldn't be used.

Well Philip does recommend HPUX ;-)

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