** On Apr 03, Eray Ozkural scribbled: > > communicate at will. After that both ends close the file and the vm-area is > > deallocated. Besides, now by doing 'df' you see how much of shared memory > > is used :)) - I like that :)) > > > Okay, it's the UNIX way. Good ol' System V. Now I guess you know what I'm > about to ask: is it feasible performance-wise? I guess it's just more consistent with the rest of the system. It's also easier to manage resources that way - when the processes are closed the files are closed and memory reclaimed - nice and clean. But then, I didn't look into it too much, as I don't use IPC myself... > > > Hmmm, I guess that has nothing to do with multiprocessing? Or is it just > > > some facility for inter-process shared memory? Great, these guys re-invent > > SystemV IPC, that's it. See at the top of ipc/shm.c in the 2.3.99 tree. > > I will check it. So no effort is made to get it to the cluster level, right? Nope, AFAIK. marek
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