On Thursday 06 May 2004 19:24, Tulsi Ram Mayala wrote: Hi Tulsi, > I tried using O_DIRECT, but made no difference. Searching gave me this > link: http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2703 > Does it really work? it does work :) ... If it did not I am 100% sure, thousands of people had screamed very loud ;) Did you opened it page aligned? man 3 memalign ciao, Marc -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/