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>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 360 bytes --]
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
[-- Attachment #2: Digital signature --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 819 bytes --]
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]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-12-04 23:08 Dave Rutherford
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20151204220138.GS23754@vapier.lan \
--to=vapier@gentoo.org \
--cc=util-linux@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox