"Michael Bacarella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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?
The system is demand paged. If swap is disabled, pages can still get released from memory since they can be paged back in later. Remember we are talking about an actual disk file (persistent data) that happens to be mmap'ed into a running program. So paging would be to the file system and not the swap area. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
