On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 14:26:12 -0400, Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At least according to [1], kernel AIO on Linux still doesn't work for > buffered (i.e. non-O_DIRECT) files. There have been patches available > for quite some time that implement this, but I'm not sure when they are > likely to get into the mainline kernel. > > -Neil > > [1] http://lse.sourceforge.net/io/aio.html
An improvement is going into 2.6.19 to handle asynchronous vector reads and writes. This was covered by Linux Weekly News a couple of weeks ago: http://lwn.net/Articles/201682/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
