Re: [HACKERS] replacing shmem

2001-01-05 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Valter Mazzola wrote: > Excuse my ignorance. > Is there a way to replace the shmem and sem (ipc.c) to use files. In this > way we can have a sort of a parallel server using GFS. ... Besides the slowness of file IO, it also doesn't make sense to have a shared memory area f

RE: [HACKERS] replacing shmem

2001-01-05 Thread Andrew Snow
I suppose it won't help here to suggest using memory mapped I/O, because someone will complain their platform doesn't support it. I wonder though if there could be an optional patch to use mmap for all disk I/O, not just shared memory! - Andrew

Re: [HACKERS] replacing shmem

2001-01-05 Thread Tom Lane
"Valter Mazzola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to replace the shmem and sem (ipc.c) to use files. In this > way we can have a sort of a parallel server using GFS. Unless GFS offers access bandwidth approaching main memory speeds, this idea is sheer folly :-(

[HACKERS] replacing shmem

2001-01-05 Thread Valter Mazzola
Excuse my ignorance. Is there a way to replace the shmem and sem (ipc.c) to use files. In this way we can have a sort of a parallel server using GFS. 1.Starting a postmaster on ONE machine creates the shared structures, 2.then start on other cluster-machines, the variuos machines share the same