From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: checkout-cache -f: a better way? Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 21:45:53 -0400 Message-ID: <428E92D1.80408@pobox.com> References: <428E5102.60003@pobox.com> <7vacmpsetb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <428E73B9.1080907@pobox.com> <7vvf5dqxfq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <428E7994.1090402@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat May 21 03:45:37 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DZJ37-00064B-AS for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 21 May 2005 03:45:09 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261632AbVEUBqG (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 May 2005 21:46:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261636AbVEUBqG (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 May 2005 21:46:06 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:61114 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261634AbVEUBqC (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 May 2005 21:46:02 -0400 Received: from cpe-065-184-065-144.nc.res.rr.com ([65.184.65.144] helo=[10.10.10.88]) by mail.dvmed.net with esmtpsa (Exim 4.51 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1DZJ3s-0000Ny-UX; Sat, 21 May 2005 01:45:58 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Fedora/1.7.6-1.2.5 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > That's what, 20 times faster? :) > More, actually, I suspect, since the "-m" version is not only faster, but > it doesn't do much IO, so you'll not have tons of dirty pages/inodes etc > afterwards. Yep. A -lot- of writeback would occur, a few seconds after my original script completed. Jeff