revert the dontneed fadvise patch this is only for 1.3

git-svn-id: svn://svn.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/branches/1.2/program@1216 a5681a0c-68f1-0310-ab6d-d61299d08faa

diff --git a/src/rrd_create.c b/src/rrd_create.c
index 16bde5bcad222742bb95c4ed937f22c9def65687..127666afb55e44bd36273bac9d3424db02ec4c61 100644 (file)
--- a/src/rrd_create.c
+++ b/src/rrd_create.c
@@ -553,12 +553,10 @@ rrd_create_fn(const char *file_name, rrd_t *rrd)
     FILE             *rrd_file;
     rrd_value_t      *unknown;
     int        unkn_cnt;
-
-    long rrd_head_size;
-
+    
     if ((rrd_file = fopen(file_name,"wb")) == NULL ) {
        rrd_set_error("creating '%s': %s",file_name, rrd_strerror(errno));
-       rrd_free(rrd);
+        rrd_free(rrd);
        return(-1);
     }
     
@@ -655,8 +653,7 @@ rrd_create_fn(const char *file_name, rrd_t *rrd)
         rrd->rra_ptr->cur_row = rrd->rra_def[i].row_cnt - 1;
         fwrite( rrd->rra_ptr, sizeof(rra_ptr_t),1,rrd_file);
     }
-    rrd_head_size = ftell(rrd_file);
-
+    
     /* write the empty data area */
     if ((unknown = (rrd_value_t *)malloc(512 * sizeof(rrd_value_t))) == NULL) {
        rrd_set_error("allocating unknown");
@@ -685,24 +682,6 @@ rrd_create_fn(const char *file_name, rrd_t *rrd)
        return(-1);
     }
     
-#ifdef HAVE_POSIX_FADVISE
-    /* this file is not going to be read again any time
-       soon, so we drop everything except the header portion from
-       the buffer cache. for this to work, we have to fdsync the file
-       first though. This will not be all that fast, but 'good' data
-       like other rrdfiles headers will stay in cache. Now this only works if creating
-       a single rrd file is not too large, but I assume this should not be the case
-       in general. Otherwhise we would have to sync and release while writing all
-       the unknown data. */
-    fflush(rrd_file);
-    fdatasync(fileno(rrd_file));
-    if (0 != posix_fadvise(fileno(rrd_file), rrd_head_size, 0, POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED)) {
-        rrd_set_error("setting POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED on '%s': %s",file_name, rrd_strerror(errno));
-        fclose(rrd_file);
-        return(-1);
-    }    
-#endif
-
     fclose(rrd_file);    
     rrd_free(rrd);
     return (0);