Linux: Adaptive Readahead
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| "Readahead is a technique employed by the kernel in an attempt to improve
| file reading performance. If the kernel has reason to believe that a
| particular file is being read sequentially, it will attempt to read blocks
| from the file into memory before the application requests them.
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http://kerneltrap.org/node/6642
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