> > Very sure. If we hit the disk at all performance drops > > unacceptably. The application has low locality of reference so > > on-demand caching isn't an option. We get the behavior we want when > > we pre-cache; the issue is simply that it takes so long to build > > this cache. > > The way I do it is run a separate process that mmaps the file and > reads one byte from each page every half hour or so. You are right > that it makes a huge difference.
Why not just disable swap? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
