Hi, Luke, Luke Lonergan wrote: >> I thought that posix_fadvise() with POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED was exactly >> meant for this purpose? > > This is a good idea - I wasn't aware that this was possible. This possibility was the reason for me to propose it. :-) > We'll do some testing and see if it works as advertised on Linux and > Solaris. Fine, I'm looking forward to the results. According to my small test, it works at least on linux 2.6.17.4. Btw, posix_fadvise() could even give a small improvement for multi-threaded backends, given that the I/O subsystem is smart enough to cope intelligently to cope with large bunches of outstanding requests. HTH, Markus
