* 林英超 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010430 06:17] wrote:
> Dear all:
>
> Because write() use buffer cache, I want to know whether aio_write() is
> better than write() in FreeBSD 4.1 . Is aio_write()
>
> outperform write() ? Or any related performance comparison between the two
> system call ????
aio_write is for doing async aio. meaning you can ask the kernel to
move data for you from a memory location to a file descriptor while
you proceed on with doing other work. if you don't have any other
work to do then aio is probably just going to slow you down.
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