Re: JNA + Cassandra security

2012-05-01 Thread Rob Coli
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Cord MacLeod wrote: >> Hello group, >> >> I'm a new Cassandra and Java user so I'm still trying to get my head around >> a few things.  If you've disabled swap on a machine what is the reason to >> use JNA

Re: JNA + Cassandra security

2012-04-30 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Cord MacLeod wrote: > Hello group, > > I'm a new Cassandra and Java user so I'm still trying to get my head around a > few things.  If you've disabled swap on a machine what is the reason to use > JNA? Faster snapshots, giving hints to the page cache with fadvis

Re: JNA + Cassandra security

2012-04-30 Thread aaron morton
> If you've disabled swap on a machine what is the reason to use JNA? JNA will still be used to efficiently make hard links for snapshots. It's not necessary to lock the JVM memory when swap is disabled. > A second question is doesn't JNA break the Java inherent security mechanisms > by allowin

JNA + Cassandra security

2012-04-30 Thread Cord MacLeod
Hello group, I'm a new Cassandra and Java user so I'm still trying to get my head around a few things. If you've disabled swap on a machine what is the reason to use JNA? A second question is doesn't JNA break the Java inherent security mechanisms by allowing access to direct system calls out