Re: GUADEC Hacking

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 18:21 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> The culprit is pretty obviously GConf which is why I'm glad DConf is 
> considering having a DB backend to address this. The short term fixes 
> which Havoc has already suggested (moving the schema crap sideways and 
> possibly mmap'ing some things) should cut some of that down but only a 
> properly indexed database will give you both speed and memory efficiency 
> (mmap'ing stuff is obviously wasteful memory wise).
> 

mmapping normally saves memory, since you can share the map between all
apps, and only actually needed pages are in ram. The only thing wasted
by a big mmap cache is address space, which is cheap.

Matthias