Re: a 15 GB file on tmpfs

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 14:16 +0200, Bastiaan Naber wrote:
[...]
> I have a 15 GB file which I want to place in memory via tmpfs. I want to do 
> this because I need to have this data accessible with a very low seek time.

Apart fromn the 32-vs-64bit thing: Isn't it enough (and simpler and more
flexible) to mmap(2) that file and mlock(2) it afterwards?

	Bernd
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