On Tue, 2016-04-12 at 11:05 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > - access is slow (unless cached, but we can't be sure) > > > > We could solve this (and the other problem) with mlock. > > Probably you meant madvise(2)? > > For something of a size comparable to the index file held by > index-helper-daemon in-core, I'd expect we wouldn't page too > badly. No, I meant mlock -- but I guess that's not portable. madvise with MADV_WILLNEED will probably do the job. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html