cvs commit: src/etc services

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at FreeBSD.org> (Sun, 20 May 2007 14:24:28 +0930):

> On Saturday, 19 May 2007 at 21:43:35 -0700, Doug Barton wrote:

> > In the past we've avoided adding entries to /etc/services that were
> > not actually being used by something we care about since every extra
> > entry increases response time for getservby*() calls.
> 
> Understood.  It's a factor I thought about.
> 
> > Do we feel this is no longer a factor worth worrying about?
> 
> It's certainly worth worrying about, and I thought about it before
> committing.  My thoughts:
> 
> - Clearly a lot of this stuff was just corrections.
> - We don't know in advance which IP ports are used by ports from the
>   Ports Collection.
> - Maybe the performance issue isn't that serious after all.
> 
> To quote from services(5):
> 
>    BUGS
>         A name server should be used instead of a static file.
> 
> I was just thinking that it might be relatively simple to build a
> "compiled" file in tabular format and then mmap it.  That should be
> relatively simple, and should greatly improve performance modulo mmap
> overhead.  How does the mmap overhead compare with querying a name
> server?

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Alexander.

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