Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 16:16:38 -0500 (EST) From: John Dyson <dyson@dyson.iquest.net> To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Cc: lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at, heo@cslsun10.sogang.ac.kr, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RE:About buffer cache Message-ID: <199607192116.QAA00678@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199607191826.NAA09117@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Jul 19, 96 01:26:06 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. > Madvise is now mostly implemented in current (for the last couple of months.) John
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