Re: why swap at all?

[Gianni Tedesco]

On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 13:37, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:19:40PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> > >On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 08:33:28PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > 
> > OK, this is obviously bad. Do you get this behaviour with 2.6.5
> > or 2.6.6? If so, can you strace the program while it is writing
> > an ISO? (just send 20 lines or so). Or tell me what program you
> > use to create them and how to create one?
> 
> To use other words, this is the typical case where a "hint" would be
> useful.
> 
> program to kernel: "i read ONCE though this file caching not useful".

Wasn't their an O_STREAMING patch thrown around towards the beginning of
the 2.5 development cycle?

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// Gianni Tedesco (gianni at scaramanga dot co dot uk)
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