Except semget() is broken in many ways pretty much everywhere -- static
limitations and such. Things you can tune the kernel to handle, but we
decided we didn't want to use it for apache because we didn't want to
force people to tune.
I don't see why you wouldn't use the exact same config we've been using
forever for apache's shared mem and locking.
Dean
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Jim Jagielski wrote:
> Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> >
> >
> > Mutex/Semaphore:
> > o 4.2BSD-style flock() on temporary file
> > o SVR4-style fcntl() on temporary file
> > o SysV IPC semget()
> >
> > and send me your results.
> >
>
> One thing I noticed that if all 3 mutexes are available, fcntl()
> will be chosen (since it's the last). The rub is that fcntl() is
> slow and expensive (well, it _can_ be) on systems running NFS.
> I would suggest the preferences be:
>
> semget()
> flock()
> fcntl()
>
> thus fcntl() is chosen only as a last resort... Make sense?
>
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