Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Linux decent performance | Date | Fri, 6 Dec 1996 21:55:25 +0000 (GMT) |
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> Does O_SYNC do write-through caching or no caching at all?
write through. But you are the only user of the data anyway
> Other needed features are memory locking and async I/O... what's > the status of that stuff?
memory locking is in 2.0. async I/O you can do but not via the standard API. For a big database vendor thats as good as 'not present'. The API needs doing at some point.
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