filesystem optimizations (Re: comments on KDE performance tips)

[Alexander Kellett]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 07:35:30PM +0100, Roger Larsson wrote:
> You can see the mmap calls, so you have quite a chance to know what MIGHT
> be needed in future...
> Maybe that would be a good enough tool? One that detects the mappings and
> reads those ahead - kernel could also do that for mappings that are less to 
> some limit.

i'd kinda of agree. but i think a disk access logger would
solve the program in a neater way personally. xp does all
this kinda stuff iirc. in fact, a filesystem defragmenter 
could be fed all the info also.

Alex

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