Antoine Pitrou

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For the record, I'll be out until the end of next week, but this is PR doesn't strike me as high priority ;-)

> fadvise without O_SYNC fails to reduce page cache memory usage Still the same question: how is that a problem?

> Filling the page cache with dirty pages leads to unnecessary swapping of active user processes. The pages shouldn't be dirty if they have been written out, should they? Also,...

> With option2: ./direct & python script.py, the write itself takes 12s and the script takes 30s on my machine. > With option4: ./fadvise & python script.py, the write itself...

Ok, so let's just revert to the O_DIRECT proposal then :-) Thanks for taking the time to move this forward!

> The wheel failure is a pip installation failure of crc32c, which it now tries to install from source instead of using a wheel Which is weird, because binary wheels...