Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.1.xxx makes Electric Fence 22x slower

Bruno Haible (haible@ilog.fr)
Fri, 4 Sep 1998 19:14:09 +0200 (MET DST)


Linus wrote:

> However, I'm not at all convinced that "efence slows down" is an argument
> at all - I want to hear some _real_ applications slow down rather than
> debugging code.

Objectstore (see [1]) is an object-oriented database which uses a lot
of VMAs. On DEC OSF/1 3.2, they have problems because the kernel does
not support a lot of VMAs, see [2], [3].

Bruno

[1] http://www.odi.com/
[2] http://list-archive.qds.com/ostore-html/0127.html
[3] http://list-archive.qds.com/ostore-html/0130.html

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