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From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
To: Peter Zaitsev <pz@spylog.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MMAP vs READ/WRITE
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:41:58 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020313164158.A1219@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <861732271654.20020313161718@spylog.ru>
In-Reply-To: <861732271654.20020313161718@spylog.ru>

Hello!

On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 04:17:18PM +0300, Peter Zaitsev wrote:
>   So I would say mmap is not really optimized nowdays in Linux and so
>   read() may be wining in cases it should not. May be read-ahead is
>   used with read and is not used with mmap.

how about reading manual page on madvise(2) and redoing your test?

Also cache is best cleaned by unmounting filesystem in question
and then mounting it back.

Bye,
    Oleg

  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-13 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-13 13:17 MMAP vs READ/WRITE Peter Zaitsev
2002-03-13 13:41 ` Oleg Drokin [this message]
2002-03-14  9:27   ` Re[2]: " Peter Zaitsev
2002-03-13 13:58 ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-13 14:48   ` Re[2]: " Peter Zaitsev
2002-03-13 14:58     ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-13 15:17       ` Re[3]: " Peter Zaitsev

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