From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([140.211.166.183]:41738 "EHLO smtp.gentoo.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755339AbbLDWBj (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Dec 2015 17:01:39 -0500 Received: from vapier.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C460340B2B for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2015 22:01:39 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 17:01:38 -0500 From: Mike Frysinger To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: fsck memory leak Message-ID: <20151204220138.GS23754@vapier.lan> References: <20151204151927.GA3548@thunk.org> <20151204195848.GA18359@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="x/TyKPcLwmKZr+b7" In-Reply-To: <20151204195848.GA18359@thunk.org> Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --x/TyKPcLwmKZr+b7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline 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 --x/TyKPcLwmKZr+b7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWYg1CAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WB1TkQALChyisOnpqHKkMqS1Nv8Bls XPQBTjN2YFm3y+j7OEUrpGw5gVlHS9ztrVvMrJRiNjOjQ6qjWzhb8PgVJUtNBuQ+ 8vKa/EqIuYYx6vSIoohV1PoOZScGLdYmxpgPiBVNN0GROC0AwNPdLVE+2RDU2CVG HSHl+DUHaDXFgYee3tKH49KHg9FENdxPdDD/fEaaC2xJ+YErpfcbhS9WfarmLnIW dkV/OL5MyGGqoJI6U+CB/zC2QWN9O9fZk0h1qtAebnmo9biF1SXdBmAUwnA5gquQ e0lWcIi4TS2KHWXSJ69i+4NXf5ywSYIU5az0Ciasyyj4EfLiG0vTgnwt/7ITFjf3 56BPYJtl526MH0vY4wAz0+dd7XL88Q5s/QdZslCMFo6yinxPwVeHgx2RCs6WiVxI iym9zF3QRvcA+I0DF91VbosnFsFSpfxw4CQtms3PB2I3vkfa+CRhKrW3AQ9nZjtk vybCZUp6FvEEwG2Y23rRMst2r7XgJPER3pTl5px6TWkhaUykKj0/UyD7QRq7oa0N 4X01w+IpLGLU8sZ+sN5YcFClhC+TbginP6KgVy5JhqTQjCwVgFTGItYrYKsGZqyj HQsynoy9WTmFVF+qMR9PG3g/8O6wrshJFDkj3ibZEO2/EATN3QLwMUvnUosrPojQ gK3XN4rhip2JI4A1jFUl =u+pC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --x/TyKPcLwmKZr+b7--