Re: Question on MM Shared Memory library

[Bodo Moeller]

On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 03:36:47PM +0200, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:

> I've still not seen any benchmarks, but the shared memory based session cache
> is certainly a magnitude faster then the disk-I/O dependent DBM based session
> cache, of course.

Presumable the difference wouldn't really be noticeable on machines
with enough RAM if it were not for DBM's fsyncing whenever something
is changed in the cache ...  DBM is trying to be crash-proof, while
in fact losing the database is totally acceptable for this application.
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