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From: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	"J.H." <warthog9@kernel.org>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	webmaster@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [KORG] Re: kernel.org lies about latest -mm kernel
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 11:37:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1168112266.2821.2.camel@entropy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <459FF60D.7080901@zytor.com>

On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 11:18 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >
> >>> BTW, yesterday my 2.4 patches were not published, but I noticed that
> >>> they were not even signed not bziped on hera. At first I simply thought
> >>> it was related, but right now I have a doubt. Maybe the automatic script
> >>> has been temporarily been disabled on hera too ?
> >> The script that deals with the uploads also deals with the packaging -
> >> so yes the problem is related.
> > 
> > and with the finger_banner and version info on www.kernel.org page?
> 
> Yes, they're all connected.
> 
> The load on *both* machines were up above the 300s yesterday, probably 
> due to the release of a new Knoppix DVD.
> 
> The most fundamental problem seems to be that I can't tell currnt Linux 
> kernels that the dcache/icache is precious, and that it's way too eager 
> to dump dcache and icache in favour of data blocks.  If I could do that, 
> this problem would be much, much smaller.
> 
> 	-hpa

Isn't setting the vm.vfs_cache_pressure sysctl below 100 supposed to do
this?

-- 
Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-06 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 115+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-14 22:37 kernel.org lies about latest -mm kernel Pavel Machek
2006-12-14 23:01 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-12-14 23:38 ` Sergio Monteiro Basto
2006-12-16 17:44 ` [KORG] " Randy Dunlap
2006-12-16 17:57   ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-16 18:02     ` Randy Dunlap
2006-12-16 19:30       ` J.H.
2006-12-16 20:30         ` Russell King
2006-12-26 16:47           ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-12-16 21:21         ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-12-26 16:49           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-07  3:35             ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-01-07  4:10               ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-07  4:47                 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-01-07  4:22               ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-07  4:29                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-07 20:11                 ` Greg KH
2007-01-07 21:30                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-07 21:54                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-07 22:21                     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-07 22:53                       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-07 23:32                         ` Martin Langhoff
2007-01-07  5:17               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-07  5:24                 ` How git affects kernel.org performance H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-07  5:39                   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-07  8:55                     ` Willy Tarreau
2007-01-07  8:58                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-07  9:03                         ` Willy Tarreau
2007-01-07 10:28                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-07 10:52                             ` Willy Tarreau
2007-01-07 18:17                             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-07 19:13                               ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found]                                 ` <9e4733910701071126r7931042eldfb73060792f4f41@mail.gmail.com>
2007-01-07 19:35                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-07 10:50                           ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-07 18:49                             ` Randy Dunlap
2007-01-07 19:07                               ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-07 19:28                                 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-01-07 19:37                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-07  9:15                       ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-07  9:38                         ` Rene Herman
2007-01-08  3:05                         ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2007-01-08 12:58                           ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-08 13:41                             ` Johannes Stezenbach
2007-01-08 13:56                               ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-08 13:59                                 ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-08 14:17                                   ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-08 13:43                             ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-09  1:09                               ` Paul Jackson
2007-01-09  2:18                                 ` Jeremy Higdon
2007-01-09  7:59                             ` Fengguang Wu
2007-01-09  7:59                               ` Fengguang Wu
2007-01-09 16:23                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-10  1:57                                   ` Fengguang Wu
2007-01-10  1:57                                     ` Fengguang Wu
2007-01-10  3:20                                     ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-01-10 14:07                                       ` Fengguang Wu
2007-01-10 14:07                                         ` Fengguang Wu
2007-01-12 10:54                                         ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-01-07 14:57                   ` Robert Fitzsimons
2007-01-07 19:12                     ` J.H.
2007-01-08  1:51                     ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-08  1:51                       ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-07 15:06                   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-01-07 20:31                     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-08 14:46                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-01-09  4:29                 ` [KORG] Re: kernel.org lies about latest -mm kernel Nigel Cunningham
2007-01-09  5:09                   ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-09  5:51                     ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-12-17 12:32         ` Pavel Machek
2006-12-17 13:13           ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-17 18:23         ` Randy Dunlap
2006-12-17 22:37           ` Matti Aarnio
2006-12-18  0:42             ` J.H.
2006-12-19  6:46               ` Willy Tarreau
2006-12-19  7:39                 ` J.H.
2006-12-19 13:32                   ` Willy Tarreau
2006-12-19 14:36                   ` Dave Jones
2006-12-19 14:38                     ` Willy Tarreau
2006-12-26 16:14                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-08 20:10           ` Jean Delvare
2006-12-19  6:34         ` Willy Tarreau
2006-12-19  6:52           ` J.H.
2007-01-06 18:33             ` Randy Dunlap
2007-01-06 19:18               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-06 19:35                 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-01-06 19:37                 ` Nicholas Miell [this message]
2007-01-06 20:13                   ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-06 20:18                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-03-19 19:27                       ` [PATCH] sysctl: vfs_cache_divisor Randy Dunlap
2007-03-19 20:36                         ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-19 20:42                           ` Randy Dunlap
2007-03-20  4:22                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-03-21 23:01                               ` Randy Dunlap
2007-03-21 23:11                                 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-23  0:07                                   ` Kyle Moffett
2007-03-23 20:36                                     ` Randy Dunlap
2007-03-23 20:59                                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-03-24  0:45                                         ` Kyle Moffett
2007-03-24  1:17                                           ` Kyle Moffett
2007-03-20 19:53                         ` Ingo Oeser
2007-01-06 23:50                     ` [KORG] Re: kernel.org lies about latest -mm kernel H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-06 20:13                 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-06 20:17                   ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-06 20:20                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-06 20:36                       ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-06 19:21               ` J.H.
2007-01-07 19:52                 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-01-07 23:56                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-12-26 17:02           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-08 19:31             ` Jean Delvare
2007-01-08 19:37               ` Willy Tarreau
2007-01-08 22:05                 ` Jean Delvare
2006-12-19 15:37         ` Tim Schmielau
2007-01-08 21:20         ` Jean Delvare
2007-01-08 21:33           ` J.H.
2007-01-09  7:01             ` Jean Delvare
2007-01-09  7:25               ` J.H.
2007-01-09 13:36                 ` Jean Delvare

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