Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 12:04:47 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1011290687.f8dfa8@mired.org> To: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cmp: Cannot allocate memory Message-ID: <15424.31423.195391.368504@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <88415365@toto.iv>
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Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> types: > On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:01:00 -0800 James Long wrote: > It seems silly to me that the utility would be written this way. > I'd have expected that it would be written in terms of read(2) > rather than mmap(2). Still you may be able to fix this by bumping the value > of vm.max_proc_mmap with sysctl. mmap is much faster than read - why copy all that data through the kernel if you don't have to? However, it ought to switch to read if the mmap fails. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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