From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | count0(at)fsj(dot)co(dot)jp |
Cc: | hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] mmap vs read/write |
Date: | 1998-05-15 22:16:58 |
Message-ID: | 199805152216.SAA21606@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> This is unfair to mmap since mmap is called once
> per page. Better to mmap large regions (many
> pages at once), then use msync() to force
> write any modified pages. Access purely in
> memory mmap'd I/O is _many_ times faster than
> read/write under Solaris or Linux later
> than 2.1.99 (prior to 2.1.99, Linux had
> slow mmap performance).
This makes me feel better. Linux is killing BSD/OS in mapping tests.
See my other posting.
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