[rrd-developers] Use of madvise / msync kills performance for me

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 02:46:46PM -0700, Marcus Reid wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using py-rrdtool 0.2.1 and rrdtool 1.3.0 under FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE,
> and for me madvise and msync really hurts performance.  There might be
> a more efficient way of doing things, but for every update the .rrd
> file is opened, mapped into memory, written to, and then closed.  Here
> is a kdump of an update before commenting out the madvise/msync
> code:

Yup I noticed this as well, and I think I said as much several months 
back, but I might have been busy. It looks like they only tested it under 
Linux or something. :)

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