Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jun 2001 17:45:45 -0700 | From | Mike Castle <> | Subject | Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0 |
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On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 08:43:33PM -0400, Dan Maas wrote: > (hrm, maybe I could hack up my own manual read-ahead/drop-behind with mmap() > and memory locking...)
Just to argue portability for a moment (portability on the expected results, that is, vs APIs).
Would this technique work across a variety of OSes?
Would the recent caching difficulties of the 2.4.* series have handled such a technique in a reasonable fashion?
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