Re: MM deadlock [was: Re: arca-vm-8...]

Mike Jagdis
1999-01-14T12:09:20Z

On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 20:05:21 +0100 (CET), Andrea Arcangeli
> <andrea@e-mind.com> said:
>
> > Maybe because nobody care about shm? I think shm can wait for 2.3 to be
> > improved.
>
> "Nobody"? Oracle uses large shared memory regions for starters.

Yeah, and so does Informix Dynamic Server. But, in general, you
do not want this to be swapped heavily, if at all.

Mike

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