I can't answer the specific question about prometheus, but I can tell you that you can mmap() any file you like, and it can be larger than the amount of RAM in the system. As you access it, pages are transparently swapped in and out from disk as required. Pages you have read are cached, but if there is memory pressure, those cached pages will be dropped.
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