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SubjectRe: Streaming disk I/O kills file buffering and makes Linux unusable
> > I agree; the raw-io system will make this much more pleasant.
>
> Why do you think so?
>
> IO is IO, whether it is raw or not. And it will eat up resources from
> everybody else trying to do IO.

True; raw I/O won't magically increase resources. But it offers
a valuable way to tell the kernel something it can't know/infer: a good
buffering policy for streaming data. The existing cache mechanism
for normal I/O works fine but is inappropriate for this case; indeed
perfectly good working sets are messed up by buffering the streaming data,
as Benno points out.

Cheers,
Peter

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