[GRLUG] Shared Memory

Ben DeMott ben.demott at gmail.com
Fri Jul 24 15:50:52 EDT 2009


Yeah that's what C's shm.h and shmop is an interface to. - I just remembered
Media Wiki (actually wikipedia uses a unique process) - I'll go and look at
that real quick, and post my findings.

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Mike Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> Net connection is down atm, so I can't be detailed.
>
> Shm on x86 (win or lin) typically refers to mmap'ing a file, often one that
> only exists in memory.
>
> HTH, someone else might be able to offer Python-specific details.
>
> ------------------------------
> From: Ben DeMott <ben.demott at gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 3:25 PM
> To: grlug at grlug.org
> Subject: [GRLUG] Shared Memory
>
>
> This might be a question for the Python user's group but I wanted to get a
> broader response.
>
> I've used the "shmop" set of functions to write shared memory support into
> my applications - does anyone know of something that works better and can be
> "sandboxed" perhaps in some way - or shared memory that can be run under
> "namespaces".
>
> I know there are several other shared memory programs out there - just
> wanted to know if anyone has any experience or can make suggestions.
> (access by literal key would be preferred to storing memory
> offsets/pointers)
>
> Thanks in Advance....
>
> P.S. - Must run on linux! :)
>
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