Re: why swap at all?

From: Matt H.
Date: Wed May 26 2004 - 08:43:34 EST


I believe it was a 2.4 patch , its still around somewhere. I can find it and
post it , if it's still relevant.

Matt H.

On Wednesday 26 May 2004 6:06 am, Gianni Tedesco wrote:
> 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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