Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:24:36 +1100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: ORMAP |
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John Richard Moser wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > And looking through the recent discussions I see in one thread... > > Willy Tarreau wrote: > > >>It depends a lot on what people do with it in fact. For instance, it >>works better in memory-constrained systems, probably thanks to rmap. >>I have one 2.6 running reliably on my web server (hppa) where 2.4 >>regularly oopsed because of low memory. > > > > This reminds me, what the hell ever happened to ORMAP? That object > based rmap thingy I tried out in one of wli's patches made my system > boot like 3 times faster. There were other cool things going on that I > never got to try too, never saw that all out to fruition. > > Status on some of the elements in the old 2.6-wli series from around > there would be nice. I'm curious as to what has gone in. >
2.6 has an object based rmap system working nicely for quite a while now (though it was probably not exactly what you saw in the -wli tree, but a derivative).
It would be surprising if that made your system boot 3 times faster though (unless it was on the edge of a swap storm or something)
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