From: Joel Reymont <joelr1@gmail.com>
To: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: "caml-list@yquem.inria.fr" <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] appending data to a mmap-ed file
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:49:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DA42A31C-6318-4D6D-BE03-C37EF8B3215C@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101217144850.GC3647@annexia.org>
I'm fine with focusing on 64-bit architectures.
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On 17/12/2010, at 14:48, "Richard W.M. Jones" <rich@annexia.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 01:36:35AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Or avoid the whole issue and make the file large enough to begin
>> with. Thanks to sparse files you can create a huge file that only uses 1
>> block on disk. Then you can mmap that and it will use up more disk space
>> as you fill in data automatically.
>
> Sure, if you have an upper limit. Neither works well on 32 bit
> architectures where you're really limited for contiguous free address
> space.
>
> Rich.
>
> --
> Richard Jones
> Red Hat
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-17 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-16 11:31 Joel Reymont
2010-12-16 12:38 ` [Caml-list] " Jesper Louis Andersen
2010-12-16 13:13 ` Joel Reymont
2010-12-16 12:57 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2010-12-16 17:16 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2010-12-17 0:36 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-12-17 14:48 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2010-12-17 15:49 ` Joel Reymont [this message]
2010-12-17 19:05 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-12-18 9:56 ` Christophe Raffalli
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