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Pathological casesPathological casesPosted Feb 5, 2010 11:03 UTC (Fri) by farnz (guest, #17727)In reply to: Pathological cases by alex Parent article: Improving readahead
That sort of situation is what posix_fadvise is meant for. If you know in advance that readahead will be wasted, posix_fadvise(fd, 0, 0, POSIX_FADV_RANDOM); tells the kernel not to bother. In general, if you know that you have an abnormal access pattern ahead of time, the right call to posix_fadvise won't hurt you, and can help.
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