On 4/22/07, Jason Ganetsky <jason.ganetsky@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Well, the solution I'm going for now is to load all my data up, call
>Gc.Compact(), and then fork off child processes. The workload that I'm
>parallelizing is read-only... so I think this will work well with Linux
>copy-on-write forking.

You might also want to look at the Ancient library
(http://merjis.com/developers/ancient) which will allow you to share
data read-only between unrelated processes, backed by a file.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat