Re: mmap() better than read() fro streaming, Was: Re: Streaming disk

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>will mlock() automatically cause all pages to be read from the file ?

Yes.

>But since I already do an mlockall() at the beginnig, there is no need of
>additional mlock()s

Yes (if you use MCL_FUTURE).

Andrea

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