A Tuesday 07 December 2010 21:37:51 Philip Winston escrigué: > > One final piece of warning: when you use mmap beyond the extend of > > your RAM, you will end swapping out many data (shared libraries, > > other processes) that might be important for the performance of > > your computer. > > That is too bad you can't tell the OS to page-back your own file > instead. That is if I have 24GB of RAM with 12GB available, and I > mmap a 100GB file, I'd like it kind of churn through that 12GB of > RAM with my stuff and leave everyone else alone. But I guess you > don't have that control.
Exactly, but I also think that you cannot control this. -- Francesc Alted _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
