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> It’s left to the operating system to determine the working set and to transfer pages between main memory and secondary storage Sigh. Good ol' mmap. They shou
by assface 11y ago
> It’s left to the operating system to determine the working set and to transfer pages between main memory and secondary storage
Sigh. Good ol' mmap. They should ask MongoDB how they went for them. Then they should read Stonebraker's 1981 paper:
http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/cs286/papers/os-cacm1981.pdf http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/cs286/papers/os-cacm1981.pdf
People never learn.