Vladimir Dozen([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.09.29 15:59:41 +0000:
> ehlo.
>
> (Sorry for long pre-history, I believe it is necessary.)
>
> My current employer develops large CORBA-based data mining servers.
> They are usually run under HP-UX, but, following the current fashion
> to build processing farms, I was targeted to build version for free
> unices. Initial platform was Linux, and build itself was done smoothly,
> but very soon we were got problem: we use pthreads; to be more precise,
> we use thread-per-client model. This means that at the same time we may
> compute from single to a few tens client sessions. Each session may eat
> as much as 1G of address space, and even more (actually, there is no
> limits except for hardware ones).
IIRC from the problems we had with a project some while ago, mm might
help. [http://www.engelschall.com/sw/mm/]
it wraps malloc() and friends into a neat api, including preallocation
in fs space (the features are somewhat os dependent) and fast shared
memory.
/k
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