[ILUG] tdb & ramdisk...

John P. Looney john at antefacto.com
Wed Apr 11 15:33:53 IST 2001


 Just wondering. I assume that with database backends, like tdb, you get a
performance boost using mmap() over standard file I/O commands.

 However, if you are storing the database on a ramdisk - is there any point
using mmap() ? Mapping memory to memory seems messed up to me :)

Kate

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