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Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 22:01 +0200, Guido Fiala wrote: [large files trash cache] > Is there a reason why those applications couldn't use O_DIRECT ? The cache trashing will affect all programs handling large files: mkisofs * > iso dd < /dev/hdx42 | gzip > imagefile perl -pe's/filenamea/filenameb/' < iso | cdrecord - # <- never tried Changing a few programs will only partly cover the problems. I guess the solution would be using random cache eviction rather than a FIFO. I never took a look the cache mechanism, so I may very well be wrong here. -- Ich danke GMX dafür, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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