Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jul 1997 11:33:51 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Michael Nelson <> | | Subject | RE: InfoWorld web server shootout |
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>> I'm missing something -- how do you skip read()'ing the file?
>It's "read" via mmap. i.e. it isn't ever read() in userland. The kernel >just maps it into your memory image and you issue a huge write on it. >You have to pay for the mapping though, which is why you want to cache it >and use it more than once.
<sigh> I realized this after I sent off the message. It was late :-).
-mike
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