readahead(2) - Linux

[Ed Schouten]

* Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org> wrote:
> the aim is to load it into system memory but not copy anything into
> user memory.

madvise() should do the trick, then.

The manpage is quite misleading:

	http://linux.die.net/man/2/readahead

"readahead() populates the page cache with data from a file so that
subsequent reads from that file will not block on disk I/O."

This isn't guaranteed, of course.

-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at fxq.nl>
 WWW: http://g-rave.nl/
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