From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 12 04:00:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA23894 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 04:00:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA23880 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 04:00:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA23153 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 06:00:25 GMT Received: from buffnet7.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa18546; 12 Jun 96 7:02 EDT Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 07:02:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey To: "T. William Wells" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: news server In-Reply-To: <4pkliu$nv9@twwells.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 11 Jun 1996, T. William Wells wrote: > In article , > Jaye Mathisen wrote: > : > I've been avoiding using mmap with inn because of the many systems > : > reporting problems with it. The question: does mmap work with > : No. > > Well, that's definite. :-) > > Next question: I hear about this thing called the "sharedactive > patch". I'm guessing that it has something to do with nnrps > sharing the history file via memory mapping. Is that correct? > Does it work with 2.1-RELEASE and later? > > I couldnt get it to work - I put all the SYSV stuff in the config, ran config, recompiled the kernal, applied the nnrp patches, reset everything and all it did was lock up.