* Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010930 02:53] wrote: > > : Second, application not always grows to 1G, most of the time it keeps > : as small as 500M ;). Why should we precommit 1G for 500M data? Doing > : multi-mmap memory management is additional pain. > > Why not? Disk space is cheap. For a problem like this I would simply > throw in two 30G+ hard drives and partition them with 16G of swap each, > giving me 32G of swap for the machine. If you needed to do it cheaply > you could even use IDE, though personally I would use SCSI for > reliability. Depending on the amount of real memory in the machine > you might have to tweek a few kernel options (like matching NSWAP to > the actual number of swap devices), but basically it should just work. > > Even using file-backed memory is fairly trivial. You don't need to > do multi-mmap memory management or do any kernel tweaking. Just > reserve 1G and use a single mmap() and file per process.
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