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388 :: shared memory access

• progcat (orginal) [2014-03-05T01:15:40+01:00] view original

  The front page of the nimrod site says a shared memory heap is available. My google-foo has failed to find anything explaining this.

  I want to be able to load a large object into memory and have separate processes access it In my case it would be read only data so locking would not be too important. I will be using Linux.

  Thanks in advance!

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• Araq (orginal) [2014-03-05T01:53:17+01:00] view original

  There is system.allocShared et al to get (unmanaged) memory from a shared heap. The shared here means it's shared between threads, not processes. For shared memory between processes you need to use mmap directly.

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