Reclaiming (lots of) memory

[Andrew Dalke]

Thomas Rast wrote:
> I've implemented it that way now.  Using a pipe to transfer the data
> to the dbm appears to essentially double the I/O overhead and is very
> inefficient.
    ...
> Well, can't blame Python if you'd need black magic even in C ;-)

You could also try using shared memory.  There's the raw
layer, like http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libshbuf/
or a higher layer like POSH ( http://poshmodule.sourceforge.net/ ).

I've used neither.  The letter only works on Intel (and
perhaps only Linux) because it does locking with some inline
asm.

				Andrew
				dalke at dalkescientific.com