Re: [tcpdump-workers] posix_fadvise()

2016-04-19 Thread Guy Harris
On Apr 19, 2016, at 10:02 AM, Denis Ovsienko wrote: > As far as documentation goes, some sense may be presumed in libpcap calling > posix_fadvise() with POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL. This way the OS would be able to > adjust the buffers better to read the .pcap file. Does anybody

Re: [tcpdump-workers] posix_fadvise()

2016-04-19 Thread Rick Jones
On 04/19/2016 10:02 AM, Denis Ovsienko wrote: Hello list. As far as documentation goes, some sense may be presumed in libpcap calling posix_fadvise() with POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL. This way the OS would be able to adjust the buffers better to read the .pcap file. Does anybody have any practical

[tcpdump-workers] posix_fadvise()

2016-04-19 Thread Denis Ovsienko
Hello list. As far as documentation goes, some sense may be presumed in libpcap calling posix_fadvise() with POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL. This way the OS would be able to adjust the buffers better to read the .pcap file. Does anybody have any practical experience with posix_fadvise() to comment if