* Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de> [011212 07:29] wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 07:23:17PM -0600, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > 
> > 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() ?

Yes... if you read the manpage. :)

MADV_RANDOM

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 start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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