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Date:      Wed, 12 Jun 1996 08:40:20 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To:        Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.com
Subject:   Re: news server 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSD.3.91.960612083942.13977C-100000@buffnet7.buffnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <28734.834545817@palmer.demon.co.uk>

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On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Gary Palmer wrote:

> T. William Wells wrote in message ID
> <4pkliu$nv9@twwells.com>:
> > Next question: I hear about this thing called the "sharedactive
> > patch". I'm guessing that it has something to do with nnrps
> > sharing the history file via memory mapping. Is that correct?
> > Does it work with 2.1-RELEASE and later?
> 
> That's debatable. It does for some people, but leads to active file
> corruption for others. The cause has yet to be tracked down, as the VM
> guru (John Dyson) can't seem to replicate the behaviour causing
> corruption on his system(s).
> 
> My current guess is that if your machine doesn't swap/page while
> running the sharedactive patch, you'll be okay, but don't quote me on
> that, and don't blame me if it doesn't work!

That sounds the same as what happens with MMAP



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