Re: Server delegation (fsys_forward)

2015-02-19 Thread Justus Winter
Quoting Roland McGrath (2015-02-19 01:52:29) Indeed the purpose is to avoid the overhead of many processes that are all nearly identical. What kind of overhead? Is it still worth it?

Re: Server delegation (fsys_forward)

2015-02-18 Thread Roland McGrath
Indeed the purpose is to avoid the overhead of many processes that are all nearly identical. Obviously there is some sacrifice of the traditional compartmentalization that the whole multi-server model gives you. So it's wise to use it for translators that are relatively simple and thus

Re: Server delegation (fsys_forward)

2015-02-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Justus Winter, le Sat 14 Feb 2015 01:21:16 +0100, a écrit : I was wondering what you think about the server delegation mechanism. What are the pros or the original motivation (memory footprint maybe?), what are the cons (reduced robustness?). I don't know the initial intention, so I'm

Server delegation (fsys_forward)

2015-02-13 Thread Justus Winter
Hello :) I was wondering what you think about the server delegation mechanism. What are the pros or the original motivation (memory footprint maybe?), what are the cons (reduced robustness?). Is it even worth the effort? We do not use it currently. /hurd/magic could use it, but we do not