Re: MM deadlock [was: Re: arca-vm-8...]

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 19:05:37 +0000 (GMT)


> >> Could somebody spare a minute to explain why is that so, and what
> >> needs to be done to make SHM swapping asynchronous?
>
> > Maybe because nobody care about shm? I think shm can wait for 2.3 to be
> > improved.
>
> "Nobody"? Oracle uses large shared memory regions for starters.

All the big databases use large shared memory objects.

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