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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: <Aucoin@Houston.RR.com>
Cc: "'Tim Schmielau'" <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>,
	<torvalds@osdl.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<clameter@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: la la la la ... swappiness
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 20:56:49 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061203205649.98df030b.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200612032356.kB3NuPc0010673@ms-smtp-04.texas.rr.com>

On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 17:56:30 -0600
"Aucoin" <Aucoin@Houston.RR.com> wrote:

> I hope I haven't muddied things up even more but basically what we want to
> do is find a way to limit the number of cached pages for disk I/O on the OS
> filesystem, even if it drastically slows down the untar and verify process
> because the disk I/O we really care about is not on any of the OS
> partitions.

Try mounting that fs with `-o sync'.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-04  4:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200612030616.kB36GYBs019873@ms-smtp-03.texas.rr.com>
2006-12-03  8:08 ` la la la la ... swappiness Andrew Morton
2006-12-03 15:40   ` Aucoin
2006-12-03 20:46     ` Tim Schmielau
2006-12-03 23:56       ` Aucoin
2006-12-04  0:57         ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-12-04  4:56         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-12-04  5:13           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-04 17:03             ` Christoph Lameter
2006-12-04 10:43         ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-04 14:45           ` Aucoin
2006-12-04 15:04             ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-05  4:02               ` Aucoin
2006-12-05  4:46                 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-05  6:41                   ` Aucoin
2006-12-05  7:01                     ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-05  7:26                       ` Rene Herman
2006-12-05 13:27                         ` Aucoin
2006-12-05 13:49                           ` Rene Herman
2006-12-05 13:25                       ` Aucoin
2006-12-04 19:02 Al Boldi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-12-04  1:54 Aucoin
2006-12-04  4:59 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-04  7:22 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-12-04 14:39   ` Aucoin
2006-12-04 16:10     ` Chris Friesen
2006-12-04 17:07     ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-12-04 17:49       ` Aucoin
2006-12-04 18:44         ` Tim Schmielau
2006-12-04 21:28           ` Aucoin
2006-12-04 18:46         ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-12-04 21:43           ` Aucoin
2006-12-04 18:06       ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-04 18:15         ` Christoph Lameter
2006-12-04 18:38           ` Jeffrey Hundstad
2006-12-04 21:25             ` Aucoin
2006-12-04 21:43               ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-04 15:55   ` David Lang
2006-12-04 17:42     ` Aucoin
2006-12-03  6:18 Aucoin

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