Vitaly Zuevsky wrote: Memory pressure isn't my problem. I see 2-15 major faults a second in the event loop of the reader thread, which can effectively stall the loop for anything between 1-400ms (I measure iowait jiffies of the pid). I understand the faults result from the writer thread, actively modifying the file mmaped by the reader. I assume writes to the file invalidate corresponding pages of the reader, and those invalid pages only get updated (via major faults) on first access by the reader. If not locking, perhaps madvise/willneed combination could help, what you think?
I think if this is your concern you should just use WRITEMAP and forget about it.
-- -- Howard Chu
Thanks for pointing me out to writemap option https://lmdb.readthedocs.io/en/release/#lmdb.Environment Re ACID implications it will have - metasync=True, sync=True, map_async=False, mode=493, create=True, readahead=True, writemap=True will this ensure integrity on disk after every write? What sequence of events (contrasted with writemap=False) could lead to data corruption here?