[vdr] Patch to avoid file system buffer trashing
Ralf Müller
rmvdr at bj-ig.de
Sun Aug 28 12:01:18 CEST 2005
Carsten Koch wrote:
> I tried your patch today and watched the available memory (using top)
> when replaying. The number stayed the same. Excellent!
Thanks a lot.
> However, when I did FF or FR, the number decreased.
> Ralf, can you reproduce the problem?
With FF there are no decreases here - but with FR. I didn't notice that
before (why ever). But I'm happy you found that. When jumping backward I
missed to clear the read ahead buffer. Interestingly it doesn't help to
clear that buffer - it may have to do with the man page description for
POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED: "start a non blocking read". It seems this read may
or may not be finished when I try to say that I don't need the
previously asked read ahead buffer anymore. So as a work around I
dropped the POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED call. This also helped for the noad patch.
I will try to release a new patch today in the afternoon/evening.
Regards
Ralf
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