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Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Chris Friesen wrote:

>>This is interesting--I hadn't considered this as most of my work for the
>>past while has been on embedded systems with everything pinned in ram.
>>
> 
> On an ftp server (or movie server, or ...) you CAN'T pin everything
> in RAM.

Yes, but you can use aio to issue the request for data and then go do 
other stuff even with a single thread.  David's case was faulting in 
little-used application code.

Or arm I missing something?

Chris