severity 333645 wishlist thanks On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 01:22:56AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
Filling this bug as normal instead of wishlist because the lack of O_DIRECT in dd during big io takss causes the kernel to pratically discard all useful cached data and inodes, thus degrading system performance a great deal for no good reason.
That's a kernel issue, not a dd issue. There are plans to fix that in 2.6.14 by less aggressively caching data for processes that behave like dd (or copy, which does exactly the same thing). Mike Stone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
