* Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net> [011212 00:28] wrote:
> > > for our app only on FreeBSD, Windows, Solaris, and Linux, AFAIK.
> >
> > Direct IO is a good idea, it prevents applications that are basically
> > doing a cache walk from blowing out all your cache.
> exactly
> > Take for instance anything that either keeps its own cache (postgresql)
> > or something that would completely never reuse its cache, like
> > cp/dd.
> 
> like copying image from CD

Yes, anything of that nature.  The idea is to minimize impact on
other program that may have resident data sets.

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-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
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 start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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