Victor Duchovni:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 05:20:11PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>
> > Would you please give us the run down on why these map types (and maybe
> > others) shouldn't be used with proxymap due to performance reasons? You
> > mentioned something about this long ago but I can't seem to locate that
> > email in my archives. IIRC you didn't go into much technical detail as
> > to why the performance would be lower using proxymap.
>
> There is no point in using IPC to ask a server to read a file, when the
> client process can read it directly. Especially with CDB, since there
> is no per-client page pool adding some per-client memory overhead.
With Stan's huge CIDR maps on a small machine, proxymap helps
to avoid running out of memory.
Wietse
