Subject: Re: RAW access to files
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/12/2001 14:29:42
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On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 07:23:17PM -0600, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>=20
> Direct IO is a good idea, it prevents applications that are basically
> doing a cache walk from blowing out all your cache.

Are there comparisons to mmap() with appropriate madvise() ?

Regards,
	-is

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