Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 20:20:39 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Nonblocking page fetching Message-ID: <199812050420.UAA18891@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199812042028.OAA25409@home.dragondata.com>
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:I tried this initially, and had a few problems:
:
:...
:the amount varies considerably from movie to movie. I need something tunable
:on the fly. (N changes with use)
:
:...
:It's not so much bandwidth, but latency. My movie's bandwidth is much less
:than the disk bandwidth, i just can never stop to wait for things to be
:brought in.
:
:Kevin
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Well, I guess for your application the easiest thing to do is to simply
use your second-process idea, accessing the pages ahead of time to
force them into the cache. I getting carried away :-)
-Matt
Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet
Communications & God knows what else.
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