What is Memory Mapped File and IO in Java
Memory mapped files are special, which allows Java program to access contents directly from memory, this is achieved by mapping whole file or portion of file into memory and operating system takes care of loading page requested and writing into file while application only deals with memory which results in very fast IO operations.Memory used to load Memory mapped file is outside of Java heap Space. Java programming language supportsmemory mapped file with java.nio
package and has MappedByteBuffer
to read and write from memory.
Advantage and Disadvantage of Memory MappedFile
Possibly the main advantage of Memory Mapped IO is performance which is important to build high frequency electronic trading system. Memory Mapped Files are way faster than standard file access via normal IO. Another big advantage of memory mapped IO is that it allows you to load potentially larger file which is not otherwise accessible. Experiments show that memory mapped IO performs better with large files. Though it has disadvantage in terms of increasing number of page faults. Since operating system only loads a portion of file into memory if a page requested is not present in memory, then it would result in page fault. It can also be used to share data between two processes.
Memory Mapped IO Support in Operating System
Most of the major operating systems like Windows platform, UNIX, Solaris and other UNIX like operating system supports memory mapped IO and with 64 bit architecture you can map almost any file into memory and access it directly using Java programming language.
Important Points of Memory Mapped IO in Java
Here are some of the important facts to know about Memory Mapped File in Java:
- Java supports Memory mapped IO with
java.nio
package. - Memory mapped files is used in performance sensitive application, e.g. high frequency electronic trading platforms.
- By using memory mapped IO, you can load portion of large files in memory.
- Memory mapped file can result in page fault if requested page is not in memory.
- Ability to map a region of file in memory depends on addressable size of memory. In a 32 bit machine, you cannot access beyond 4GB or 2^32.
- Memory mapped IO is much faster than Stream IO in Java.
- Memory used to load File is outside of Java heap and reside on shared memory which allows two different processes to access File.
- Reading and writing on memory mapped file is done by operating system, so even if your Java program crashes after putting content into memory, it will make to File until OS is fine.
- Prefer Direct Byte buffer over Non Direct Buffer for faster performance.
- Don't call
MappedByteBuffer.force()
method too often, this method is meant to force operating system to write content of memory into disk, So if you call force() method each time you write into memory mappedfile, you will not see true benefit of using mapped byte buffer, instead it will be similar to disk IO. - In case of power failure or host failure, there is slim chance that content of memory mapped file is not written into disk, which means you could lose critical data.
That's all folks. Memory mapped IO is an important concept for advanced Java developers, especially for writing high performance applications in Java. If you like this tip, then you may like to visit my bloghttp://javarevisited.blogspot.com for more such articles.
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