The most direct problem it caused is: it seems using hard disk prior than "true" memory, which caused the program runs rather slow. How could I improve it?
It's not surprising your program uses the disk a lot. In your original post, you say your program reads in a large file. Said file lives on disk. To get it from disk, it needs to use the disk. Hence the disk usage.

Of course, it could also mean you're using so much memory the process is swapping to disk. In that case, you may want to look at your program again and see whether you really need to complete file in memory.

In reply to Re^4: Why I got nearly out of memory, and never recover from that? by JavaFan
in thread Why I got nearly out of memory, and never recover from that? by llancet

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