[rrd-developers] MSYNC issues

[Tobias Oetiker]

AJ,

Yesterday AJ Ragusa wrote:
>
> After I looked through the RRDTool code I found that it is using the
> MS_ASYNC flag... since this problem was only recently resolved (only
> took 4 years) in January of 2008 I'm guessing that not a lot of
> kernels have this fix.  Is it ok to change to MS_SYNC for the flag to
> msynch instead of MS_ASYNC?  Or is that going to cause more problems?

it is goig to kill perforance ...

apropos popular applications, I think samba was suffering from the
same issue with its database files.

cheers
tobi


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