quickwit-oss / quickwit-oss/quickwit
Investigate the opportunity to use fadvise / madvise
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enhancement
- Dominant language
- Rust
- Stars
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- Forks
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Description
to improve the pagecache usage.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by locating the page-cache handling in the Rust code and determine where fadvise or madvise could apply. Done means a documented conclusion about whether either approach improves pagecache usage, with supporting measurements or a clearly scoped follow-up.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- operating-systems, performance
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100