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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:19:01 -0500
From: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>
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To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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Subject: Re: ORMAP
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Nick Piggin wrote:
> John Richard Moser wrote:
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>> And looking through the recent discussions I see in one thread...
>>
>> Willy Tarreau wrote:
>>
>>
>>> It depends a lot on what people do with it in fact. For instance, it
>>> works better in memory-constrained systems, probably thanks to rmap.
>>> I have one 2.6 running reliably on my web server (hppa) where 2.4
>>> regularly oopsed because of low memory.
>>
>>
>>
>> This reminds me, what the hell ever happened to ORMAP?  That object
>> based rmap thingy I tried out in one of wli's patches made my system
>> boot like 3 times faster.  There were other cool things going on that I
>> never got to try too, never saw that all out to fruition.
>>
>> Status on some of the elements in the old 2.6-wli series from around
>> there would be nice.  I'm curious as to what has gone in.
>>
> 
> 2.6 has an object based rmap system working nicely for quite
> a while now (though it was probably not exactly what you saw
> in the -wli tree, but a derivative).
> 
> It would be surprising if that made your system boot 3 times
> faster though (unless it was on the edge of a swap storm or
> something)

Dramatization.  It was probably around 30 seconds faster on a 2-3 minute
boot sequence (I had a lot in rc.d), but it was noticeable :P

I was wondering about that stuff.  There used to be a few cute things
out there but I can't remember any of it now.  Page clustering etc etc.

> 

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