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Date:      Mon, 20 Aug 2001 09:52:03 -0600
From:      Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com>
To:        'fergus' <tofergus@yahoo.co.uk>, hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: shared memory models/techniques
Message-ID:  <5FE9B713CCCDD311A03400508B8B30130828F313@bdr-xcln.corp.matchlogic.com>

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Are your processes all created by fork() or are they unrelated? If they're
all descendants of the same process, take a look at the GNU mm library
(which is loosely based on structure of the mm_malloc library I wrote for my
company but couldn't release).

http://www.engelschall.com/sw/mm/

If they're unrelated, you'll have to use SysV.

Charles

-----Original Message-----
From: fergus [mailto:tofergus@yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 4:57 AM
To: hackers
Subject: shared memory models/techniques


hope this is an ok place to post this.

as far as i can tell there are three ways to share memory between processes
-
using mmap, ipc shared mem or skip it using threads instead.

is this right?

basically i have a server process accepting many connections & i was using
threads, however, it doesn't really make sense processes would probably be
simpler with shared mem.  i was going to use IPC but don't like building
uncessesary dependancies (i.e. it's a kernel option).

is mmap the best way to do this?  why would you use ipc instead?

. . . and finally (milking the assistance to the last) is there a really
simple app using shared mem resources that anyone knows about so i can
butcher
it?

thanks in advance.

fergus

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