From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 2 16:55:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sigbus.com (sigbus.com [207.211.10.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BD5337BBF9 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 16:55:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from henrich@sigbus.com) Received: (from henrich@localhost) by sigbus.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA82259 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 2 May 2000 16:55:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from henrich) Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 16:55:17 -0700 From: Charles Henrich To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Bypassing disk buffers Message-ID: <20000502165517.A82222@sigbus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1024/F7 FD C7 3A F5 6A 23 BF 76 C4 B8 C9 6E 41 A4 4F Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In FreeBSD how do you bypass the kernel buffers for file I/O (can you?). That is, when I read a file I want it coming directly off disk, not out of memory, even if I've just read it.. -Crh Charles Henrich Manex Visual Effects henrich@sigbus.com http://www.sigbus.com/~henrich To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message