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Behavior of mmap'd memory on memory pressure

I have a large tar file (60GB) containing image files. I'm using mmap() on this entire file to read in these images, which are accessed randomly. I'm using mmap() for the following reasons: Thread ...
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Memory size for kernel mmap operation

I'm interested in the way Linux mmaps files into the main memory (in my context its for executing, but I guess the mmap process is the same for writing and reading as well) and which size it uses. So ...