From: Ray Fucillo <fucillo@intersystems.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: process creation time increases linearly with shmem
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:07:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <430DC285.7070104@intersystems.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <430D0D6B.100@yahoo.com.au>
Nick Piggin wrote:
> fork() can be changed so as not to set up page tables for
> MAP_SHARED mappings. I think that has other tradeoffs like
> initially causing several unavoidable faults reading
> libraries and program text.
>
> What kind of application are you using?
The application is a database system called Caché. We allocate a large
shared memory segment for database cache, which in a large production
environment may realistically be 1+GB on 32-bit platforms and much
larger on 64-bit. At these sizes fork() is taking hundreds of
miliseconds, which can become a noticeable bottleneck for us. This
performance characteristic seems to be unique to Linux vs other Unix
implementations.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-25 13:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-24 18:43 process creation time increases linearly with shmem Ray Fucillo
2005-08-25 0:14 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-25 13:07 ` Ray Fucillo [this message]
2005-08-25 13:13 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-25 14:28 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-25 17:31 ` Rik van Riel
2005-08-26 1:26 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-26 1:50 ` Rik van Riel
2005-08-26 3:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-26 11:49 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-26 14:26 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-26 17:00 ` Ray Fucillo
2005-08-26 17:53 ` Rik van Riel
2005-08-26 18:20 ` Ross Biro
2005-08-26 18:56 ` Hugh Dickins
[not found] ` <8783be660508260915524e2b1e@mail.gmail.com>
2005-08-26 16:38 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-26 16:43 ` Ross Biro
2005-08-26 18:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-26 18:41 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-26 22:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-26 23:10 ` Rik van Riel
2005-08-26 23:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-27 15:05 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-28 4:26 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-28 6:49 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-29 23:33 ` Ray Fucillo
2005-08-30 0:29 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-30 1:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-30 0:34 ` Linus Torvalds
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-08-25 14:05 Parag Warudkar
2005-08-25 14:22 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-25 14:35 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-25 14:47 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-08-25 15:56 ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-14 14:07 Brice Oliver
2005-12-14 16:21 ` Hugh Dickins
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