Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Jan 1997 10:37:36 -0500 (EST) | From | yuri mironoff <> | Subject | Re: Good point of Linux over Windows NT |
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On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, David S. Miller wrote:
> Kernel level support for async-IO is something that should be at least > thought about. From the UNIX's that I've heard actually do it, they > limit you to one outstanding async-IO request per task/thread. This > seems to suggest it is not a trivial problem to solve at all. > > From what I've heard NT allows numerous (unlimited?) outstanding > async-IO requests to be queued to the system, and programmers love > this. Can someone validate this? It's what I've heard, I want to > know if it is true. >
VMS (omigosh) has this - you can queue as many async IO requests as your process quota will allow. Its a VERY nice feature. I think we should borrow it.
Y.
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