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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:58:20 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Peter Zaitsev <pz@spylog.ru>
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Subject: Re: MMAP vs READ/WRITE
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On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, 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.

Both guesses are correct.

Rik
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