METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ALLOCATING MEMORY IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

摘要

A method and product for allocating memory in a computing environment (100), the method comprising providing a memory allocation routine (106) adapted to use mmap( ) (108) with a MAPsHARED or equivalent flag specified so that the memory (116) is allocated from a file system buffer cache (110). In one embodiment, the method comprises allocating the memory by using mmap( ) (108) with a MAPsHARED or equivalent flag specified so that the memory (116) is allocated from a file system buffer cache (110).