mmap caching

[Nick Craig-Wood]

George Sakkis <george.sakkis at gmail.com> wrote:
>  The file is written once and then opened as read-only, there's no
>  flushing. So if caching is completely up to the OS, I take it that my
>  options are either (1) modify my algorithms so that they work in
>  fixed-size batches instead of arbitrarily long sequences or (2)
>  implement my own memory-mapping scheme to fit my algorithms. I guess
>  (1) would be the less trouble overall, or is there a way to give a hint
>  to the OS on how large cache can it use ?

The above behaviour isn't as expected.  So either there is something
going on in your program that we don't know about or there is a bug
somewhere, either in the OS or in python.

Can you make a short program to replicate the problem?  That will help
narrow down the problem.

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