Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database Management System? Andrew Crotty Carnegie Mellon University andrewcr@cs.cmu.edu Viktor Leis University of Erlangen-Nuremberg viktor.leis@fau.de Andrew Pavlo Carnegie Mellon University pavlo@cs.cmu.edu ABSTRACT Memory-mapped (mmap) file I/O is an OS-provided feature that maps the contents of a file on secondary storage into a program’s address spac