Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:25:50 +0100 | From | Martin Waitz <> | Subject | Re: OS I/O operations concepts |
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hoi :)
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:10:03PM +0000, tony osborne wrote: > What about the disk bitmap and the one loaded into the memory. Will this be > updated at each Byte write operation? This will slow down extremely the > system speed.
no, all data is first written into the buffer cache and will be written to disk later.
> Should the programmer force the second option (by using BufferOutputStream > as in java) or is it done automatically by the JVM or OS?
Writing single bytes can be slow because of another reason: system calls are expensive and it makes sense to buffer data in the application and send it to the operating system in one big system call.
> Does the I/O controller (once the device driver installed) full privileges > as the main CPU when on kernel mode?
I'm not sure if i understood your question correctly but yes, The IO Controller has full access to physical memory through DMA.
> is Java system.in.read (system.out.println) synchronous or asynchronous I/O > Op
They are synchronous. Otherwise you couldn't access your data at the moment read() returns.
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