Re: [Evolution-hackers] Camel mmap summary ideas, proposal for a meeting

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

Hi,

On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 13:34 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> 1. (Evolution only?) fd usage will easily max out on systems like
> Solaris and/or installations where the user has a large number of
> folders. Each mmap'd file requires a persistantly open file descriptor,
> which, especially combined with vFolders, will be difficult to keep
> under the system threshold.

You can mmap() a file and then immediately close() it and still access
the data.  I'm not sure if this means that the file descriptor is
released back to the system or not or how it impacts the open files
limitation.

Joe