Hello,

We have a windows application (a process) that requires a large data file (approx. 100 MB) to perform a task. We have a master that launches several instances of this application. We would like to share the large data file across the processes such that, there is just one instance of the data file in physical memory without any disc access. Hence each application will have a small footprint in memory during execution.  We have tried using a managed shared memory object from the boost::interprocess library to achieve this. However, this doesn’t help us as the memory footprint of the application goes up upon access of the data file.  Is there a way to achieve the desired single footprint memory sharing?  Does this work as expected with other OSes?

Naveen