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From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>
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Subject: RE: Known MMAP() race conditions ... ?
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On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Jamie Bowden wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, David Schwartz wrote:
> 
> :
> :> 	I can give you a list of things from my experience (not a
> :> webmaster.com employee). Threads, SMP, NFS, and purify. I can't think of
> :> anything NT does better than any unix though. :)
> :
> :	Large RAID arrays. 4-way SMP. Applications requiring large numbers of
> :threads. Log-based system. There's nothing I know of in any UNIX that comes
> :close to NT's completion ports for efficient network I/O.
> 
> Irix can do all that, and use different familys and speeds in the same
> box.  Want to mix 200mhz R10k's and 250mhz R12k's in your Origin2k?  Go

But I bet you must have same processors on one node 8-)

> for it.  We have a half a terrabyte RAID onsite at NASA LaRC, hanging off
> an Irix box.  That machine has more processors than NT can handle.  Oh,
> and it doesn't go down.
> 
> Jamie Bowden
> 
> -- 
> 
> If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up.  But boggle can go.
> 	-Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle)
> 

	Sander

	There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future -
	all these are just illusions.




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