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Date:      Fri, 19 Jul 1996 13:26:06 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
To:        lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at (Hr.Ladavac)
Cc:        heo@cslsun10.sogang.ac.kr, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: RE:About buffer cache
Message-ID:  <199607191826.NAA09117@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
In-Reply-To: <199607191506.AA011698773@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> from "Hr.Ladavac" at Jul 19, 96 05:06:12 pm

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> Even though, an implementation of madvise(2) which turns on the sequential
> access policy for the mmap(2)ped file wouldn't be bad either.

I mentioned support for madvise() a while back to John Dyson and he
suggested that it would be a weekend project, I have not checked back on
this but I may have reason to do so pretty soon.

madvise() is perfect for these sorts of applications.

... JG



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