On 05/11/11 11:19, Alain Spineux wrote:
> Hello I have a file, that is an index, it is open all the time by the
> application,
> but sometime the access are slow because the file was moved out of the cache.
>
> How can I keep it in memory all the time ?
> I can read it at regular interval, but this is a little over kill ?
>
> Any idea
>
> thanks.
>
>
There is a kernel facility that nails pages to memory so that
they are not paged out (such as for DMA purposes).
But I do not know if such a facility is accessible directly from
any userland calls via libc.
BSD used to have a vadvise() call to accomplish such a feat.

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