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Date:      Sun, 30 Sep 2001 04:34:00 +0200
From:      "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>
To:        Vladimir Dozen <vladimir-dozen@mail.ru>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: VM: dynamic swap remapping (patch)
Message-ID:  <20010930043400.C61409@mail.webmonster.de>
In-Reply-To: <20010929155941.A291@eix.do-labs.spb.ru>; from vladimir-dozen@mail.ru on Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 03:59:41PM %2B0000
References:  <20010929155941.A291@eix.do-labs.spb.ru>

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Vladimir Dozen(vladimir-dozen@mail.ru)@2001.09.29 15:59:41 +0000:
> ehlo.
>=20
>   (Sorry for long pre-history, I believe it is necessary.)
>=20
>   My current employer develops large CORBA-based data mining servers.
>   They are usually run under HP-UX, but, following the current fashion
>   to build processing farms, I was targeted to build version for free
>   unices. Initial platform was Linux, and build itself was done smoothly,
>   but very soon we were got problem: we use pthreads; to be more precise,
>   we use thread-per-client model. This means that at the same time we may
>   compute from single to a few tens client sessions. Each session may eat
>   as much as 1G of address space, and even more (actually, there is no
>   limits except for hardware ones).

IIRC from the problems we had with a project some while ago, mm might
help. [http://www.engelschall.com/sw/mm/]

it wraps malloc() and friends into a neat api, including preallocation
in fs space (the features are somewhat os dependent) and fast shared
memory.

/k

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