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Jan Harkes <jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu> writes: > > Is there a solution to this problem, or is coda not suitable for > > larger data sizes? > > In any case you need a lot of swap. But when the RVM data is in a file, > it is possible to enable the use of private mmaps. This allows for a > huge improvement in startup time, as unmodified RVM-data pages are > simply discarded and re-read from the underlying RVM data file when > needed. Only modified pages are `dirty' and will be written to swap when > there is memory pressure. The swap footprint of a Coda server will > slowly grow over time during the lifetime of the server. This looks promising, how do I enable private mmaps? I searched the documentation but didn't find anything. Do I need to modify the code? Thanks for your explanation regarding rvm data size, I'll do some more testing to see how much I really need.Received on 2000-11-03 05:57:20