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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: "Håvard Kvålen" <havardk@netcom.no>
Cc: Dan Maas <dmaas@dcine.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Swap
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:23:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011120212336.H1308@lynx.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0111202019170.4079-100000@imladris.surriel.com> <03bb01c17213$887ccd30$1a01a8c0@allyourbase> <fa.jc73ejv.1s6e80t@ifi.uio.no> <m3wv0knbgs.fsf@athlon.kvaalen.no>
In-Reply-To: <m3wv0knbgs.fsf@athlon.kvaalen.no>; from havardk@netcom.no on Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 02:45:23AM +0100

On Nov 21, 2001  02:45 +0100, Håvard Kvålen wrote:
> > (I just tried looking at XMMS and Freeamp - I *think* they are using
> > read(), but strace seems to do bad things with threaded programs,
> > argh...)
> 
> You are right about XMMS, it uses read().  I'm not sure about Freeamp.

When I was hacking on mpg123, it was using mmap by default unless it was
unable to mmap the file (e.g. stdin) where it uses read.  You could turn
this off at compile time, so it only uses read.  I found that to work
better on low memory machines.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/


  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-21  4:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.kmf405v.j74f21@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.ns5ugpv.q02sbg@ifi.uio.no>
2001-11-20 21:26   ` Swap Dan Maas
2001-11-20 22:05     ` Swap Rik van Riel
2001-11-20 22:11       ` Swap David S. Miller
2001-11-20 22:19         ` Swap Rik van Riel
2001-11-20 22:34           ` Swap Dan Maas
2001-11-20 23:05             ` Swap Andrew Morton
     [not found]             ` <fa.jc73ejv.1s6e80t@ifi.uio.no>
2001-11-21  1:45               ` Swap Håvard Kvålen
2001-11-21  4:23                 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2001-11-20 22:23         ` Swap Andrew Morton
2001-11-20 23:01           ` Swap David S. Miller
2001-11-20 23:35             ` Swap Rik van Riel
2001-11-20 23:40               ` Swap David S. Miller
2001-11-21  0:19                 ` Swap Rik van Riel
2001-11-21  0:21                   ` Swap David S. Miller
     [not found] <fa.kb6ct7v.pgku0d@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.k8qdvcv.184ak2l@ifi.uio.no>
2001-11-20 22:46   ` Swap Dan Maas
2001-11-20 23:17     ` Swap Trond Myklebust
     [not found] <fa.inl6g6v.1mmbp4@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.heevhav.sjs8an@ifi.uio.no>
2001-11-18 22:15   ` Swap Dan Maas
2001-11-18 22:43     ` Swap François Cami
2001-11-19  9:18       ` Swap James A Sutherland
2001-11-19 10:51         ` Swap Remco Post
2001-11-19 13:33           ` Swap James A Sutherland
2001-11-19 13:46             ` Swap Remco Post
2001-11-19 16:58               ` Swap Rik van Riel
     [not found]                 ` <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0111191458150.1491-100000@duckman.distro.conecti va>
2001-11-19 21:13                   ` Swap Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-11-19 21:17                     ` Swap Rik van Riel
     [not found]                       ` <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0111191917000.1491-100000@duckman.distro.conecti va>
2001-11-19 21:52                         ` Swap Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-11-19 16:36             ` Swap Jesse Pollard
2001-11-20 14:51             ` Swap J.A. Magallon
2001-11-20 16:01               ` Swap Wolfgang Rohdewald
2001-11-20 16:06                 ` Swap Remco Post
2001-11-20 16:12                 ` Swap Nick LeRoy
2001-11-20 16:20                 ` Swap Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-20 17:14                   ` Swap Christopher Friesen
2001-11-20 17:40                     ` Swap Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-20 18:14                       ` Swap Nick LeRoy
2001-11-21 10:17                         ` Swap Helge Hafting
2001-11-21 11:17                           ` Swap Alan Cox
2001-11-20 23:20                       ` Swap Luigi Genoni
2001-11-21 16:44                       ` Swap Remco Post
2001-11-20 17:58                     ` Swap Wolfgang Rohdewald
2001-11-20 21:05                     ` Swap Steffen Persvold
2001-11-20 21:18                       ` Swap Mike Fedyk
2001-11-20 21:33                         ` Swap Nick LeRoy
2001-11-20 21:44                           ` Swap Mike Fedyk
2001-11-20 22:00                             ` Swap Nick LeRoy
2001-11-21 16:53                             ` Swap Remco Post
2001-11-20 21:43                         ` Swap Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-20 21:19                       ` Swap Nick LeRoy
2001-11-21 16:48                       ` Swap Remco Post
2001-11-20 20:58               ` Swap Mike Fedyk
2001-11-19 10:03       ` Swap Tim Connors
2001-11-19 10:16         ` Swap Dan Maas
2001-11-18 21:12 Swap war
2001-11-18 21:25 ` Swap James A Sutherland
2001-11-18 21:28   ` Swap war
2001-11-18 21:42     ` Swap François Cami
2001-11-18 21:45       ` Swap war
2001-11-18 23:03       ` Swap Erik Gustavsson
2001-11-19 18:12         ` Swap Eric W. Biederman
2001-11-19 18:43           ` Swap Rik van Riel
2001-11-20  2:49             ` Swap Eric W. Biederman
2001-11-20  3:33               ` Swap Ryan Cumming
2001-11-20 11:43                 ` Swap Rik van Riel
2001-11-20 11:41               ` Swap Rik van Riel
2001-11-19 19:12           ` Swap James A Sutherland
2001-11-20  2:47             ` Swap Eric W. Biederman
2001-11-20  9:16               ` Swap James A Sutherland
2001-11-18 22:05   ` Swap J.A. Magallon
2001-11-18 22:21     ` Swap François Cami
2001-11-18 22:36     ` Swap Charles Marslett
2001-11-18 22:54       ` Swap J.A. Magallon
2001-11-18 23:36     ` Swap Bernd Eckenfels

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