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From: gpalmer@webspan.net (Gary Palmer)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: INN 1.5.1 w/MMAP OK on FreeBSD-2.2?
Date: 1 Apr 1997 03:20:59 GMT
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In article <5havfd$hd@gosset.maths.tcd.ie>,
	ajudge@maths.tcd.ie (Alan Judge) writes:
> I'm just about to install an INN-1.5.1 system on a FreeBSD server
> (running 2.2-RELEASE, soon to be 2.2.1-RELEASE).  Does anyone know
> if the past problems with mmap on FreeBSD are now fixed?  I'd like
> to know if I can safely set active and DBZ to use MMAP (and whether
> the various shared active patches for nnrpd will work).

MMAP is indeed fixed in 2.2. I've been running with -current (and
later the 2.2 branch after the branch was made) on my news server for
several months with no kernel problems (just drives dying).

Gary
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
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