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Re: A file in memory

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From: Hans Galema
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:50
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Antonio Farfan wrote:

>   When i open one file, all the content of this file is load in the memory?,

No, the OS buffers a part of the file. One time windows did about
64 Kbyte. But maybe this is more and adjustable now.

> and if the answer is not, could be
> done?. 

Then you have to do it yourself.

 > The idea is load all the file in the memory to decrement the time of
> access of one application to
> this file, (size of file is 8MB, and it is always read by the application.).
> Perhaps this is a bad idea.

Determine the size of the file, declare a buffer of that size
and open and load the file in the buffer, close the file.

Hans.
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