How do you tell if you're using aKode?

[Neil Stevens]

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On Saturday 24 July 2004 07:39 am, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> On Friday 23 July 2004 22:16, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > On Friday 23 July 2004 09:43 am, Stefan Gehn wrote:
> > > Another way is detect by hearing. If you get blips and blops on
> > > seeking or on buggy strams then it's mpeglib, otherwise it's aKode.
> > > Or you run cvs up on all your kde sources at once while listening to
> > > a file on the same hdd. If it skips like mad on extended
> > > hdd-trashing times then it's mpeglib, otherwise it's aKode (yes, I
> > > can cvs up all of kde without a single dropout now, not even xmms
> > > managed that back when I used it).
> >
> > So it does its own buffering?  How much latency does akode add?
>
> The real reason akode does less skiping, is because I've put in
> madvise/fadvise calls to advise the I/O layer how the disk is going to
> be accessed. When you advise the kernel that the disk is going to be
> accessed sequentially, it increases the read-ahead buffer and discards
> pages immediatly when they are no longer accessed..

Sounds great, thanks.

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