Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:19:47 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Swap |
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On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> > Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:05:05 -0200 (BRST) > > Consider this a VM bug, mmap() really should be more efficient. > > read() is always going to be faster until mmap() can > use large page mappings for the user. This is why > mmap() is slower.
Uhhhh, read his original mail. When using mmap() he had problems with the VM doing bad page replacement, while read() was smooth.
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