Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 6 Sep 1996 19:44:54 +0300 (IDT) | From | Jonathan Wexler <> | Subject | Re: Buffer cache hints |
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On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Hi, all. I have a process which reads a large file (nearly half the > size of RAM) and swap-copies it into a malloced array of the same > size. This results in a lot of disc head movement as pages are read
Why not use mmap()? (if the data is in the same form as you want it in memory)
Yoni.
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