From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@hotpop.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dmesg verbosity [was Re: AGP bogosities]
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:17:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050323171723.GA9663@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MPG.1cabbc978b50163989719@news.gmane.org>
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 05:49:47PM +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> > > What are the cons of using "all of" the RAM at boot time to
> > > cache the boot disk?
>
> Dave Jones wrote:
> > It's memory that's otherwise unused. Once you start using the system
> > anything cached will get reclaimed as its needed.
>
> So there is no substantial loss? IOW, it would suffice to have
> all the "loaded at boot" stuff in the first <amount of RAM>
> bytes of the hard disk?
It very likely also needs to be contiguous on-disk (Ie, no in-file
fragmentation). You want to limit the amount of seeking that gets
done so the drive readahead just performs continuous reads.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-23 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-11 1:24 AGP bogosities Paul Mackerras
2005-03-11 2:04 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-11 2:11 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-03-11 2:18 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-11 2:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-11 4:02 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-11 4:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-11 16:39 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-11 17:59 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2005-03-11 18:04 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-12 3:27 ` Mike Werner
2005-03-12 3:58 ` Dave Jones
2005-03-13 3:13 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-13 4:08 ` Dave Jones
2005-03-13 4:28 ` Dave Jones
2005-03-11 22:43 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-03-11 23:22 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2005-03-12 0:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-12 1:34 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-03-11 18:04 ` James Simmons
2005-03-11 18:08 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-11 2:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-11 2:12 ` Dave Jones
2005-03-11 2:18 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-03-11 2:23 ` Dave Jones
2005-03-11 2:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-11 2:49 ` Dave Jones
2005-03-12 20:49 ` Greg KH
2005-03-11 2:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-11 22:18 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2005-03-11 22:26 ` Dave Jones
2005-03-11 22:33 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-03-11 23:52 ` Gene Heskett
2005-03-11 22:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-11 23:09 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-03-12 0:06 ` Gene Heskett
2005-03-14 8:17 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-14 8:27 ` David Lang
2005-03-14 8:37 ` dmesg verbosity [was Re: AGP bogosities] Pavel Machek
2005-03-14 16:55 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-14 17:03 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-14 17:17 ` Dave Jones
2005-03-14 17:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-14 17:27 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-14 17:27 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-15 20:18 ` Greg Stark
2005-03-14 18:12 ` Diego Calleja
2005-03-14 19:07 ` Lee Revell
2005-03-20 6:44 ` David Lang
2005-03-23 0:37 ` Diego Calleja
2005-03-23 0:53 ` Lee Revell
2005-03-23 1:13 ` Dave Jones
2005-03-23 1:29 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-23 8:21 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2005-03-23 16:14 ` Dave Jones
2005-03-23 16:49 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2005-03-23 17:17 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2005-03-23 14:10 ` Diego Calleja
2005-03-23 8:19 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2005-03-30 9:45 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-23 0:53 ` Zan Lynx
2005-03-23 0:55 ` Grant Coady
2005-03-14 21:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-14 22:08 ` David Lang
2005-03-15 0:02 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-11 22:42 ` AGP bogosities Dmitry Torokhov
2005-03-11 22:47 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-03-12 17:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-12 22:26 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2005-03-12 22:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-11 2:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-11 2:43 ` Dave Jones
2005-03-11 2:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-11 22:11 ` J.A. Magallon
2005-03-11 22:18 ` Dave Jones
2005-03-11 22:46 ` J.A. Magallon
2005-03-11 23:16 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-03-11 23:17 ` J.A. Magallon
2005-03-11 23:23 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-03-11 23:24 ` J.A. Magallon
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2005-03-30 10:19 dmesg verbosity [was Re: AGP bogosities] tvrtko.ursulin
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