"Michael Bacarella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Very sure. If we hit the disk at all performance drops > unacceptably. The application has low locality of reference so > on-demand caching isn't an option. We get the behavior we want when > we pre-cache; the issue is simply that it takes so long to build > this cache.
The way I do it is run a separate process that mmaps the file and reads one byte from each page every half hour or so. You are right that it makes a huge difference. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
