From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
tori@unhappy.mine.nu (Tobias Ringstrom)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
mike_phillips@urscorp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:52:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01062816525604.00419@starship> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15Fbyy-0006xF-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E15Fbyy-0006xF-00@the-village.bc.nu>
On Thursday 28 June 2001 15:37, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The problem with updatedb is that it pushes all applications to the swap,
> > and when you get back in the morning, everything has to be paged back
> > from swap just because the (stupid) OS is prepared for yet another
> > updatedb run.
>
> Updatedb is a bit odd in that it mostly sucks in metadata and the buffer to
> page cache balancing is a bit suspect IMHO.
For Ext2, most or all of that metadata will be moved into the page cache
early in 2.5, and other filesystem will likely follow that lead. That's not
to say the buffer/page cache balancing shouldn't get attention, just that
this particular problem will die by itself.
--
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-28 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-28 12:20 VM Requirement Document - v0.0 mike_phillips
2001-06-28 12:30 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-28 13:33 ` Tobias Ringstrom
2001-06-28 13:37 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-28 14:04 ` Tobias Ringstrom
2001-06-28 14:14 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-28 14:52 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2001-06-28 14:39 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-28 15:21 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-06-28 16:02 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-28 18:01 ` Marco Colombo
2001-07-02 18:42 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-03 10:33 ` Marco Colombo
2001-07-03 15:04 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-03 18:24 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-04 8:12 ` Ari Heitner
2001-07-04 9:41 ` Marco Colombo
2001-07-04 15:03 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-03 18:29 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-04 8:32 ` Marco Colombo
2001-07-04 14:44 ` Daniel Phillips
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-05 15:09 mike_phillips
[not found] <fa.jprli0v.qlofoc@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.e66agbv.hn0u1v@ifi.uio.no>
2001-07-05 1:49 ` Dan Maas
2001-07-05 13:02 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-05 14:00 ` Xavier Bestel
2001-07-05 14:51 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-05 15:04 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-05 15:00 ` Xavier Bestel
2001-07-05 15:12 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-05 15:12 ` Alan Shutko
2001-07-06 19:09 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-06 21:57 ` Daniel Phillips
[not found] ` <002501c104f4/mnt/sendme701a8c0@morph>
2001-07-09 12:17 ` Pavel Machek
2001-07-12 23:46 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-13 21:07 ` Pavel Machek
2001-07-04 16:08 mike_phillips
2001-06-27 8:53 Martin Knoblauch
2001-06-27 18:13 ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-28 6:59 ` Martin Knoblauch
2001-06-28 11:27 ` Helge Hafting
2001-06-28 11:54 ` Martin Knoblauch
2001-06-28 12:02 ` Tobias Ringstrom
2001-06-28 12:31 ` Xavier Bestel
2001-06-28 13:05 ` Tobias Ringstrom
[not found] <fa.oqkojpv.3hosb7@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.jpsks3v.1o2gag4@ifi.uio.no>
2001-06-27 0:43 ` Dan Maas
2001-06-27 0:45 ` Mike Castle
2001-06-27 10:50 ` Xavier Bestel
2001-06-26 19:58 Jason McMullan
2001-06-26 21:21 ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-26 21:29 ` Jason McMullan
2001-06-26 21:33 ` John Stoffel
2001-06-26 21:42 ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-26 22:21 ` Stefan Hoffmeister
2001-06-26 22:48 ` Jeffrey W. Baker
2001-06-27 0:18 ` Mike Castle
2001-06-28 13:07 ` John Fremlin
2001-06-27 13:36 ` Marco Colombo
2001-06-27 3:55 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-27 14:09 ` Pozsar Balazs
2001-06-28 22:47 ` John Fremlin
2001-06-30 15:37 ` Pavel Machek
2001-07-10 10:34 ` David Woodhouse
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