Re: Problems reclaiming VM cache = XFree86 startup annoyance

From: Andrew MacIntyre (andymac_at_bullseye.apana.org.au)
Date: 12/21/03

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To: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>

    On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Paul Mather wrote:

    > Not being a Python programmer, I don't know exactly how BitTorrent is
    > accessing the files (e.g., using mmap), though I do know some kind of
    > random access is involved as the filesets are chunked and different
    > chunks are served to different peers. I suspect random access to such
    > large files is not kind to the cache, though. :-)

    BT doesn't use mmap(), just seek()/read()/write(). 

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