Subject: Re: msync in INN (was Re: Multiple net interfaces)
To: None <BurgessD@J64.STRATCOM.AF.MIL>
From: Jan-Hinrich Fessel <oskar@zappa.Ruhr.DE>
List: current-users
Date: 03/02/1994 20:46:39
Im sorry, Dave <-)
> Someone replied (whose name my mail software gladly destroys):
> >Peter Galbavy wrote:
> >>Also, an msync() needs adding in innd/icd.c:
> >...
> >>-> if (msync(ICDactpointer, 0) == -1)
> >>-> syslog(L_ERROR, "%s cant msync", LogName);
> >...
> >
> I have been running innd for over a year, and I have never had any trouble
> with this.
>
> Are you certain that this is required?
It seems to be required if you like to have the active-file
mmaped(). I personally run inn 1.4-sec without using mmap.
Works fine for me, maybe because innd is fed by uucp.
Gruesse
Oskar
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