On Sat, 29 Jun 1996, Jukka Marin wrote:

> > As I recall, INN likes to mmap() a bunch of files.  If true, it will
> > run head-on into the cache coherency bug I alluded to above; you may
> > have to turn off use of mmap, if INN can be so configured, or switch to
> > some other news system, if not.
> 
> INN can be configured not to mmap() the active file.  I have been running
> INN on NetBSD since 1.0.

It can be, but under 1.1 it need not be. I've been running a news server
under 1.1 using mmap on the active file for over a half year now.

One of the routines does have to have an msync() call added to it.

cjs

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