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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
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On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:53:32PM +0200, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:

    mkisofs?

O_DIRECT would probably win here too I think.

> I only have 3 GB of RAM, and creating and writing trashes the whole
> cache twice.

With 512MB of RAM, I stream (in the background while I'm poking about
under X with Mozilla and things) 10GB+ files around all the time and
never notice it, this is using O_DIRECT off XFS.


  --cw
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