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Re:Discovering and exploring mmap using Go by fnord123 on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:53AM (#25726793)
From the first paragraph:

> One of the main problems a database storage engine has to solve is how to deal with data in disk that is bigger than the available memory.

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Re:Discovering and exploring mmap using Go by fnord123 on Monday January 11, 2021 @07:23AM (#25727970)
I misread the comment. The file fits in address space? As sibling comment suggests, address space is v. big and it's very much a corner case (or very specific use case) for most people.
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