Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Apr 1999 20:49:13 +0100 (GMT) | From | Alex Buell <> | Subject | RE: How to make Linux scale up WRT bandwidth and size? |
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On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> You can't mmap block devices. I don't think avoiding the filesystem > will help particularly, though you could avoid some filesystem > overhead in the real-time path by preallocating the file.
How come I can mmap() /dev/zero ?
Cheers, Alex -- "A mind opened by new ideas can never return to its original limits"
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