So this means we have the following problems:
- Linux + Apache is more difficult to tune for maximum performance.
- The documentation for Linux doesn't make it clear enough that mmap
can be a very efficient solution.
> This is, unfortunately, very untrue. Versions 3.5 and 4.0 of NT have
> very different driver architectures. My last driver required three
> DLLs because of the funky *new* design. In porting linux drivers,
> there is documentation and on-the-net collaboration. The support
> engineer at Microsoft, after several hours of phone time, could never
> answer my questions. A couple of weeks later, he called *me* to glean
> my answer because other developers were calling about the same thing.
How cooperative. My last contact with the Evil Empire was asking if
they offer documentation for the ARC firmware as used in MIPS NT boxes.
Their answer was we'd have to become member of one of their developer
programs first for DM (M$ Munich) can't remember. My lower part of the
body ...
Some guy from SGI, btw sent me the documentation two days later via
overnight express for free over the Atlantic and left the choice of
signing a NDA or not to me. And that even though I was not working
with or for a SGI machine.
Somehow M$ behaviour reminds of some person in the reformation of the
Catholic Church in Germany about 500 years ago. "Sobald die Muenze im
Kasten klingt, die Seele in den Himmel springt" - whatever a nice
translation for that sentence might be ...
Ralf