Shawn Corey: > Saurabh Singhvi: >> the external binary is HUGE in terms of ram usage so i need a way to >> keep it loaded in the memory >> so that i can keep passing the next parameters, instead of loading >> it each time. > > If you're running UNIX you can set the binary's sticky bit. See `man > chmod` and `man 2 chmod`. The sticky bit tells UNIX to leave the > program in RAM for a little while in case it is called again very > soon.
If the binary allocates the massive amount of memory at init and frees it at exit, then you still need a malloc-cloak that keeps that memory at hand. Maybe 'daemonize' can be adjusted to do that. -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
