Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Oct 2002 12:59:13 -0700 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] O_STREAMING - flag for optimal streaming I/O |
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On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:53:32PM +0200, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
mkisofs?
O_DIRECT would probably win here too I think.
> I only have 3 GB of RAM, and creating and writing trashes the whole > cache twice.
With 512MB of RAM, I stream (in the background while I'm poking about under X with Mozilla and things) 10GB+ files around all the time and never notice it, this is using O_DIRECT off XFS.
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