On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 16:00, John F Davis wrote: > I used the regular list, because the dev list seems to be dead.
It goes up and down, but I don't think it's quite dead just yet. > But that's not my point... > > I'm talking about completely seperate process's without any forked > relationship. After I wrote this note, I talked to some other developers > and the resultant idea was that if one wanted to do what I want to do, then > they must allocate a large buffer pool in shared memory and then use some > custom routines to disperse the memory from this large buffer. (jmalloc if > you will.) I figured someone had written such routines already. It sounds > like your SGI code does the same thing, but I'm looking for something open > sourced. The it sounds like you will need to do what they recommended. SGI Shared Memory Arenas are part of the standard library on IRIX (more or less) and it's quite a shame that there isn't anything like that available under linux. I wonder how hard it would be to come up with something like that... (Hmmmmm....) Tanner -- Tanner Lovelace | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- GPG Fingerprint = A66C 8660 924F 5F8C 71DA BDD0 CE09 4F8E DE76 39D4 GPG Key can be found at http://wtl.wayfarer.org/lovelace.gpg.asc --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- This would be a very good time to hang out with the Open Source people, before they get formally reclassified as a national security threat. -- Bruce Sterling _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
