>> Vitaly Zuevsky wrote:
>> Memory pressure isn't my problem. I see 2-15 major faults a second in the
>> event loop of the reader thread, which can effectively stall the loop for
>> anything between 1-400ms (I measure iowait jiffies of the pid). I understand
>> the faults result from the writer thread, actively modifying the file mmaped
>> by the reader. I assume writes to the file invalidate corresponding pages of
>> the reader, and those invalid pages only get updated (via major faults) on
>> first access by the reader. If not locking, perhaps madvise/willneed
>> combination could help, what you think?
>>
> I think if this is your concern you should just use WRITEMAP and forget about
> it.
> 
> --
>   -- Howard Chu

Thanks for pointing me out to writemap option 
https://lmdb.readthedocs.io/en/release/#lmdb.Environment
Re ACID implications it will have -
metasync=True, sync=True, map_async=False, mode=493, create=True, 
readahead=True, writemap=True
will this ensure integrity on disk after every write? What sequence of events 
(contrasted with writemap=False) could lead to data corruption here?

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