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'.
next prev 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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