Re: [HACKERS] mmap vs read/write

> This is unfair to mmap since mmap is called once
> per page. Better to mmap large regions (many
> pages at once), then use msync() to force 
> write any modified pages. Access purely in
> memory mmap'd I/O is _many_ times faster than
> read/write under Solaris or Linux later
> than 2.1.99 (prior to 2.1.99, Linux had
> slow mmap performance).

This makes me feel better.  Linux is killing BSD/OS in mapping tests.

See my other posting.


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