Re: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace

Miklos Szeredi
2004-11-18T20:10:44Z

> It's actually even _normal_ behaviour for many of the core users of shared
> files. People who really do databases get quite upset if you don't let
> them mmap as much memory as they want, because for them, they really tune
> their cache sizes for the size of memory, and they think the OS (and
> anything else, for that matter) just gets in their way. They want 99% of
> memory to be used for the shared mapping, and the remaining 1% for their
> code.

I'll try to write a FUSE deadlocker with the newly learnt info, and
let you know the result.

Thanks,
Miklos