On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 20:09 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > as you > > still have to pull a lot of data from disk, you still put quite a > > pressure on VM subsystem, so direct I/O can still help, > > But how to talk afio, star or mkisofs into that ?
I was thinking that a simple wrapper to open() which adds O_DIRECT might be sufficient, but it turned out that this alone is not sufficient: the buffers used by the programs must have a certain alignment. This is not guaranteed without modifying the way how those programs allocate memory. -- Bye, Patrick Ohly -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MakeCD related mails) http://home.pages.de/~ohly/ http://makecd.core.de/ (MakeCD home page) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
