> When doing a sequential scan on a table, the OS is doing a one-page
> prefetch, which is probably enough. The problem is index scans of the
> table. Those are not sequential in the main heap table (unless it is
> clustered on the index), so a prefetch would help here a lot.
>
> That is where we need async i/o. I am looking in BSDI, and I don't see
> any way to do async i/o. The only way I can think of doing it is via
> threads.
O_ASYNC Enable the SIGIO signal to be sent to the process group when
I/O is possible, e.g., upon availability of data to be read.
Now I am questioning this. I am not sure this acually for file i/o, or
only tty i/o.
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