On 4/30/05, Eli Billauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shachar Raindel wrote: > >> On 4/27/05, Eli Billauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I'm capturing a video stream with a command-line tool, which sends the >>> data stream to standard output. Now this is written to a disk, only the >>> disk access is at times too slow (the average speed is more than OK, >>> though). >>> >>> Now, since I use a common UNIX pipe to store the file (tee, actually), >>> the disk blocks, and the stream is broken. So I thought: Hmmm, how about >>> a simple application, which allocates, say, 16 MB of non-pageable RAM >>> (peanuts in today's terms), behaving like a simple data FIFO, which I >>> put in the pipeline? This would give plenty of time solve whatever is >>> more urgent than writing to the disk. >>> >>> I would write such an application, but for some reason I'm sure someone >>> has done that before me. Anyone has an idea? >> >> >> Try looking at the following: >> A. bfr, whose homepage seems to dissappear but still available from >> many distros (apt-get install bfr) >> B. mbuffer, from >> http://www.rcs.ei.tum.de/~maierkom/privat/software/mbuffer/ >> , which >> seems to do what you want >> C. buffer (I have no idea from where, just apt-get install buffer), >> which also does exactly what you want. >> >> > Thank you. > > If looks like mbuffer is the thing. Wasn't your intention to publish your > answer...? > >
Oooops, should learn to click reply-all instead of replay.... CCing Haifux, to publish my answer... Shachar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
