Bit torrent swap space via python

Diez B. Roggisch deetsNOSPAM at web.de
Wed May 5 17:04:08 EDT 2004


Julia Goolia wrote:
> My question is... is there a class or function to open a file which
> will not do any buffering in the swap space?

Nope - thats a system thingy. applications request memory, and get it - if
there isn't enough physical, the swapspace grows.

It might be possible for kernel level code to prevent the memory beenig
swappable, but that clearly is beyond pythons capabilities.

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Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch



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