I wrote:
>Because of the number and potential size of the files that need to be
>streamed, its not possible to mmap them in their entirety into the
>address space. If we could, then most problems would go away.
Yeah, and they do. Sure, in theory a 4GB address space isn't really
big enough, but in practice, its just fine. Things work just great, as
far as I can tell right now. I just mmap the whole file, and then use
mlock on the read-ahead sections, munlocking them once we've moved
past them. As a younger generation might once have said, "keen!".
--p
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