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

On 4/15/08, Randall R Schulz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Monday 14 April 2008 13:01, Bob Lee wrote:
> > 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.
>
>
> To what end?


Nowaday an HDD can be 1 TB big, even that is not enough?

> 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.
>
>
> The access patterns are such that to achieve anything near acceptable
> performance, the tree and the priority queue must remain in the working
> set.



How about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive ?

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