| gabriel rosenkoetter on Sat, 20 Apr 2002 00:10:16 +0200 |
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On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 05:15:19PM -0400, ian reinhart geiser wrote: > Unfortunately if I had the memory to contain 150megs of GIF file in memory > this would not be an issue. What I am looking for is a tool that will let > you write all of the files to one file, and not take up all of the memory. ::blink:: Heard of virtual memory? In any case, no sane program would try to hold all of a 150 MB file in memory at a time; rather, it'd mmap() one page-sized chunk (perhaps giving the VM system some preload hints about what it's going to want next), and then write out in the same size. Have you actually *tried* this and seen a memory error, or do you just believe there'll be a problem? -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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