Re: TAKE - better mmap write support in pagebuf

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 04:55, Steve Lord wrote: 
> Some multiple blocksize work, and better optimization of allocation
> and writes in the mmap write case where memory pressure is the cause
> of data getting flushed. We used to fragment files really badly in
> this case, now fragmentation is reasonable - which causes major
> speedup of some loads.
>
 
I would hold off taking this code until I do some more work on it, looks
like I fixed one lot of performance by killing another one.... dbench
throughput has gone down the tubes.

Not sure yet when it came in - sometime in the last 24 hours I think.

Steve