threw up some threads to read ahead, then my user thread and my read ahead threads would thrash on trying to lock the buffer slots. So, I had the read ahead threads start at some distance into the table, and work toward the beginning. The user thread would do its own I/O until
Ah. The lightbulb went on. You want multiple outstanding I/O operations in the case that table or index spans multiple physical disks.
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