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List:       imap
Subject:    Re: IMAP on NFS-mount mailspool
From:       Bill Yeager <yeager () roam ! Eng ! Sun ! COM>
Date:       1997-02-27 17:35:56
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>The small writes are less efficient
>than mmap()

If you use NFS on solaris, then using mmap can gain orders of magnitude with
respect to NFS. Of course, chosing NFS mounting is a bad idea period. 

>however that would take some work to
>reimplement those parts of the code.

Yep. It did take quite a bit of work ...

Bill

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