Re: [Patch] shm bug introduced with pagecache in 2.3.11

Dax Kelson (dax@gurulabs.com)
Fri, 19 Nov 1999 10:50:23 -0700 (MST)


Alan Cox said once upon a time (Fri, 19 Nov 1999):

> > That said, I don't think this can/will be fixed for a 2.4 timeframe,
> > especially as I haven't heard of any real-life usage where it would be an
> > issue..
>
> News servers like Typhoon , high performance threaded web servers (eg Zeus)
>
> Fortunately these guys tend to be using pretty serious I/O subsystems not
> M/O disks and they are fine with 2.2.
>
> Alan

Zeus hasn't been multithreaded for quite awhile. They achieve better
performance with a big select/poll loop.

Dax

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