Re: Out-of-Memory Handling in Long-Running / Server Applications

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Randall R Schulz <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Yes. It's a heap-based priority queue (where "heap" is meant in the
> sense of the heap data structure, not in the sense of a dynamic
> allocation pool.)


You could actually back that with a file. Compared to allocating a really
huge heap (bigger than physical RAM), you could gain some more control over
when swapping out to disk occurs, but whether or not you could do a
significantly better job than the OS's default algorithm is debatable.

Bob

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