Thanks Howard. What's the best documentation on mmap you know, aside from read kernel source code?
On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Howard Chu <[email protected]> wrote: > Kristoffer Sjögren wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> Our application do lots of caching using vmtouch, up to a point where >> there isn't a lot of memory left on the machine. We would like to use >> LMDB on the same machine to store around 40GiB data of a few hundred >> million entries. >> >> How can we best understand the interaction and behavior of the OS >> cache and sharing of memory between processes? Is LMDB doing something >> to help the OS? > > > Nope, LMDB does nothing special with its mmap. > > -- > -- Howard Chu > CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com > Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ > Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
