From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 14 03:32:26 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA13861 for current-outgoing; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 03:32:26 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id DAA13831 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 03:32:08 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA03333; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 12:31:24 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA24573; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 12:31:22 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA18746; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 12:30:32 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504141030.MAA18746@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: mmap bugs gone yet? To: gpalmer@freefall.cdrom.com (Gary Palmer) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 12:30:30 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hsu@cs.hut.fi, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <11077.797848925@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Gary Palmer" at Apr 14, 95 01:42:05 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 522 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Gary Palmer wrote: > > In message <199504140359.GAA27301@shadows.cs.hut.fi>, Heikki Suonsivu writes: > >Have mmap bugs been eliminated yet, ie. could it be safe to turn MMAP > >option in INND on? > > Not AFAIK. If the port is updated (in ports/news/inn), then it'll be > safe to use. With the merged VM/buffer cache, i doubt it will buy too much to mmap the files at all. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)