On Tuesday 09 October 2007 10:21, nordi wrote: > ... > > Yes, that is another thing. And it is probably not good for the disc > to move around every 2 seconds all day long.
You're kidding, right? That's virtually an idle drive. > > Incidentally, if there are any Linux programmers reading, are there > > file access options or modes that inhibit caching? > > Use O_DIRECT when opening the file, this should do the job according > to "man 2 open". In the case of Azureus, the caching is useful in > some situations. If you are seeding only one or two 'small' files > (~100MB) it means Azureus can run without any disc access after a > while. Azureus is a Java application. The problem with these platform-specific access options is that the Java libraries don't provide any means of accessing them. To exploit them, Azureus would need a custom I/O library with native implementations to optimize it for each platform on which it runs. But since it's an SWT application, it's already not 100% pure Java, so I suppose that wouldn't be as much of step back as it would be for most Java applications. > Regards > nordi Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
