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Subject: Does anyone know how to prevent the swap file from being accessed?

Author: KarinsDad

Date: 08:57:48 06/26/00

In both a Windows 98 and a Linux OS, my program hits the swap file heavily when
accessing the hash table.

However, I have the hash table sized specified at about 40-45% of all memory in
both cases (I am testing on a 256 MB Windows 98 system with 120 MB hash and a
128 MB Linux system with a 50 MB hash).

I cannot believe that my program and the OS take up so much memory that I have
to go to the swap files. This has to be an OS default which forces applications
to swap, even though they shouldn't have to.

Does anyone know of a way to programatically tell the OS to knock it off?

Thanks,

KarinsDad :)

• noisy hard drive does not a swap file make xracer 14:37:18 06/26/00
  • Moderation: A message for xracer Andrew Williams 15:18:58 06/26/00
• Re: Does anyone know how to prevent the swap file from being accessed? Andrew Williams 11:20:07 06/26/00
  • Re: Does anyone know how to prevent the swap file from being accessed? ujecrh 13:49:39 06/26/00
• Re: Does anyone know how to prevent the swap file from being accessed? Tom Kerrigan 10:24:02 06/26/00
• Re: Does anyone know how to prevent the swap file from being accessed? Paul 09:31:54 06/26/00
  • Re: Does anyone know how to prevent the swap file from being accessed? Ernst Walet 13:23:55 06/26/00
    • Re: Does anyone know how to prevent the swap file from being accessed? Paul 14:06:18 06/26/00

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