Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:19:01 -0500 | From | John Richard Moser <> | Subject | Re: ORMAP |
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Nick Piggin wrote: > 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)
Dramatization. It was probably around 30 seconds faster on a 2-3 minute boot sequence (I had a lot in rc.d), but it was noticeable :P
I was wondering about that stuff. There used to be a few cute things out there but I can't remember any of it now. Page clustering etc etc.
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