At 10:49 AM 8/28/2001 -0400, Frank Gribbin wrote:
>I have two programs that communicate via a pseudo message file and the
>file's length is always small compared to total memory on the system.  Is
>there a way to convince the memory manager to keep the file in memory ?

Use it frequently and have sufficient main memory.
MPE/iX does an amazing job of keeping the most referenced pages in main
memory.  This is one of the attributes of MPE/iX that distinguishes it from
the "also ran OS's".
If your file is not being kept in main memory then it is because:
a) It is referenced less often than many other pages.
b) It is referenced often but you don't have sufficient main memory to keep
the "important" (frequntly referenced) pages in main memory.



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