Re: ORMAP

[Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>]

John Richard Moser wrote:
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> And looking through the recent discussions I see in one thread...
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> Willy Tarreau wrote:
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>>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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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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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