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 Danny> My program reads (open, read, close) the contents of a file
 Danny> from a set of about 25 files continuously Each time it's a
 Danny> different file. Is there a way to improve the performance of
 Danny> the file reads, from "outside" the program, by some form of
 Danny> file locking in memory before/when the program starts?

you don't specify what system you're using.

On some systems, you can mmap() and then mlock() the files from a
privileged process (depending on the system, you may also have to read
from each page of the file to force them to be faulted in the first
time). This is only a win if the files are small enough to be locked
in memory, _and_ the other memory usage (and the system's VM tuning)
is such that the file pages would otherwise have been freed for other
uses in between reads from your program.

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Andrew.

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Quote:> My program reads (open, read, close) the contents of a file from a set
> of about 25 files continuously Each time it's a different file. Is
> there a way to improve the performance of the file reads, from
> "outside" the program, by some form of file locking in memory
> before/when the program starts?

-a

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