Re: Is MMAP working ?

Dan Merillat (harik@accessorl.net)
Thu, 28 Sep 1995 14:02:50 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 27 Sep 1995, Craig Schlenter wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Sep 1995 [quite a while ago, so I reproduced it all], Linus
> Torvalds wrote:
>
> > Craig Schlenter: "Is MMAP working ?" (Sep 8, 16:22):
> > >
>
> igw01:~$ uptime
> 1:26pm up 14 days, 20:05, 1 user, load average: 1.02, 0.42, 0.22
> igw01:~$ uname -a
> Linux igw01 1.3.25 #24 Mon Sep 11 08:05:42 GMT+0200 1995 i486
>
> igw01 is a 486 with 16megs of RAM and a 1542 scsi controller. It's not
> exactly idle either as it is a firewall that runs socks for about 100
> users and also does news and mail.

Great! How much of a diffrence does a mmap/non mmap inn make?
If it makes a difference, I'd like to know more (I know of a linux
newsserver that is _THAT_ close to keeping up, but not quite)

> My congratulations and thanks to the developers. I'm very impressed with
> linux!

I'll second that!

Dan Merillat <harik@eola.accessorl.net>