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		tayo42 on July 2, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database... Varnish has a file system backed cache that depends on the page cache to keep it fast. What did you differently in your custom one that was faster then varnish?

pjdesno on July 3, 2023 [–]

Simple multithreaded read/write. On a 20-core 40-thread machine with a couple of fast NVMe drives it was way faster.

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