From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265590AbUEZNVw (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 May 2004 09:21:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265585AbUEZNVW (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 May 2004 09:21:22 -0400 Received: from trantor.org.uk ([213.146.130.142]:24717 "EHLO trantor.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265686AbUEZNHz (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 May 2004 09:07:55 -0400 Subject: Re: why swap at all? From: Gianni Tedesco To: Matthias Schniedermeyer Cc: Nick Piggin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20040526123740.GA14584@citd.de> References: <40B4590A.1090006@yahoo.com.au> <200405260934.i4Q9YblP000762@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <40B467DA.4070600@yahoo.com.au> <20040526101001.GA13426@citd.de> <40B47278.6090309@yahoo.com.au> <20040526105837.GA13810@citd.de> <40B47D4C.6050206@yahoo.com.au> <20040526123740.GA14584@citd.de> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1085576794.20025.5.camel@sherbert> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 14:06:45 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 13:37, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:19:40PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > > >On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 08:33:28PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > OK, this is obviously bad. Do you get this behaviour with 2.6.5 > > or 2.6.6? If so, can you strace the program while it is writing > > an ISO? (just send 20 lines or so). Or tell me what program you > > use to create them and how to create one? > > To use other words, this is the typical case where a "hint" would be > useful. > > program to kernel: "i read ONCE though this file caching not useful". Wasn't their an O_STREAMING patch thrown around towards the beginning of the 2.5 development cycle? -- // Gianni Tedesco (gianni at scaramanga dot co dot uk) lynx --source www.scaramanga.co.uk/scaramanga.asc | gpg --import 8646BE7D: 6D9F 2287 870E A2C9 8F60 3A3C 91B5 7669 8646 BE7D