Re: Locking Page in Memory

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From: prunesquallor
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:48

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"Eelke" <e.klein@remove.mplussoftware.nl> wrote in message 
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> I had an idea that might work. The details I leave as an exercise.
>
> If you would use a memory mapped file the block of memory would never be 
> written to the swapfile. Instead windows would swap it to the file. If you 
> make sure you have the file open with exclusive access (no sharing) to the 
> file nobody else could get access to the contents and you could zero it 
> out when you no longer needed it.

A nice idea. A skim read of:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dngenlib/html/msdn_manamemo.asp
implies that it may well work (even though it does rabbit on about the 
pagefile).

Will investigate further - thanks.

John B

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