This article should be required reading for anyone building programs with massive memory consumption!
To give some context, this describes how Varnish combines mmapping with a nice memory partitioning scheme to get free caching from the OS, instead of fighting the OS' tendency to cache and managing it yourself.
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This article should be required reading for anyone building programs with massive memory consumption!
To give some context, this describes how Varnish combines mmapping with a nice memory partitioning scheme to get free caching from the OS, instead of fighting the OS' tendency to cache and managing it yourself.