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From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 03:32:13 +0100
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On 7 February 2011 02:41, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrote:
>
> On 05/02/2011, at 12:43, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>> On 05/02/2011, at 11:09, Ivan Voras wrote:
>>>> It doesn't allocate memory once it's going, everything is preallocated before the data transfer starts.
>>>>
>>>> I'll have a go with mlock() and see what happens.
>>>
>>> Did you find anything interesting?
>>
>> I'll be looking at it on Monday, I will let you know :)
>
> No luck with mlock() so it wouldn't appear to be paging is the issue :(

I'm also interested in raw device vs file system access!