From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fsck memory leak
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 17:01:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151204220138.GS23754@vapier.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151204195848.GA18359@thunk.org>
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On 04 Dec 2015 14:58, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> So doing something like "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" is
> actually a _bad_ thing, since it means you are throwing away data that
> could be used to avoid blocking waiting for disk I/O to complete.
just to clarify for other readers: "bad" here means "bad for performance",
not "bad" as in "data loss".
-mike
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-04 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-04 7:15 fsck memory leak U.Mutlu
2015-12-04 7:49 ` U.Mutlu
2015-12-04 10:21 ` Karel Zak
2015-12-04 18:00 ` U.Mutlu
2015-12-04 15:19 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-12-04 17:53 ` U.Mutlu
2015-12-04 19:09 ` U.Mutlu
2015-12-04 19:58 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-12-04 20:31 ` U.Mutlu
2015-12-04 21:40 ` Ruediger Meier
2015-12-04 22:26 ` U.Mutlu
2015-12-04 22:03 ` Mike Frysinger
2015-12-04 22:17 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-12-04 22:01 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
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2015-12-04 23:08 Dave Rutherford
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