An old gripe: Reading via mmap stinks

Andrew Snow andrew at modulus.org
Fri Jan 15 13:46:33 UTC 2010


Ivan Voras wrote:
>> Hi Mikhail, I assume these tests were done on UFS.  Have you tried 
>> ZFS? I'm curious to see the results.

> I suspect it would be noticably worse :) AFAIK ZFS integration with mmap 
> does at least one extra in-memory data copy.

True but ZFS also has its own quite aggressive read-ahead algorithm

- Andrew


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