Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: More on O_STREAMING (goodby read pauses) | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 09 Oct 2002 18:43:52 -0400 |
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On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 18:23, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> But I did the test with an addition: read a 1Gb file and print an '*' > after every 10M. Without O_STREAMING, when memory fills, the 'progress > bar' stalls for a few seconds while pages are sent to disk. > So the patch also favours a constant sustained rate of read from the > disk. Very interesting for things like video edition and so on. > I like it ;).
This is 100% the point of the patch and hopefully the point I proved when I first posted it.
Robert Love
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