True; raw I/O won't magically increase resources. But it offers
a valuable way to tell the kernel something it can't know/infer: a good
buffering policy for streaming data. The existing cache mechanism
for normal I/O works fine but is inappropriate for this case; indeed
perfectly good working sets are messed up by buffering the streaming data,
as Benno points out.
Cheers,
Peter
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