Re: [naviserver-devel] Questions about NS details... (scalability, lib changes)

[Zoran V. <zv...@ar...>]

Am 12.07.2006 um 22:04 schrieb Mike:

>
> mmap is good because it kind of allows zero-copy from usercode..
> however it's not useable in my situation directly because of the
> 32-bit address space restriction - can't mmap 65GB (650MB*100) of
> address space...  The solution I've seen others use is to mmap in 16MB
> chunks and move the mmaped chunk as the transfer progresses along the
> file.

I wouldn't be surprised to see some clever sendfile implementations
mmap'ing the file and there you go with the 32-bit problem!
I do not know... I believe you may be good advised to look into
the actual platform implementation of the sendfile.

Cheers
Zoran