> 
> No, the dtrace output (from iosnoop and hfsnoop) shows a kernel process 
> regularly doing 64kB I/O to a variety of unidentified files. 


If they are waveform overview files that might explain the small sizes.

But if not, and they are contiguous reads the disk controller could put them 
into single reads, but they would appear as separate reads of 64KB in the 
trace. Either a custom file cache or the built-in readahead cache could be 
doing this. Just speculating, but it seems they might be using a custom cache 
without readahead, because of the propensity of readahead pages being ejected 
at the os’s whim.
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