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SubjectRe: large files unnecessary trashing filesystem cache?
FromLee Revell <>
DateWed, 19 Oct 2005 00:10:00 -0400
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 22:01 +0200, Guido Fiala wrote:
> Of course one could always implement f_advise-calls in all
> applications

Um, this seems like the obvious answer.  The application doing the read
KNOWS it's a streaming read, while the best the kernel can do is guess.

You don't really make much of a case that fadvise can't do the job.

Lee

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