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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!twwells!bill From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) Subject: Re: [Q] INN, ACT_STYLE=MMAP and Shared Active Patch Organization: None, Mt. Laurel, NJ Message-ID: <DIsq01.BM@twwells.com> References: <49fnn1$174@news.ro.com> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 08:24:00 GMT Lines: 19 In article <49fnn1$174@news.ro.com>, Mike R. Prevost <mprevost@ro.com> wrote: : Is MMAP buggy in FreeBSD like some UNIXes? I heard some rumors to that : effect. So I'm told. : Has anyone successfully (and reliably) used ACT_STYLE=MMAP and/or the : nnrpd shared active patch? Does it really increase performance on a : FreeBSD 2.1.0 system? I haven't tried. Last I heard FreeBSD's mmap didn't work with INN. : (My INN is working fine without MMAP, BTW -- just trying to be as RAM : conservative as I can.) If you're running a small number of feeds and don't use mmap, you should turn off the DBZINCORE stuff (in config.data). Having the history data in memory doesn't buy much unless there are a number of incoming feeds.