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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: linux-2.4.10-pre5
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 01:14:31 +0200
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On September 11, 2001 12:39 am, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > (Ugly secret: because I tend to have tons of memory, I sometimes do
> >
> > 	find tree1 tree2 -type f | xargs cat > /dev/null
> 
> This suggests we may want to do agressive readahead on the
> inode blocks.

While that is most probably true, that wasn't his point.  He preloaded the 
page cache.

--
Daniel