On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:38:30 +1100, David Chinner said:
> Perhaps instead of swapping immediately, a SIGLOWMEM could be sent
> to a processes that aren't masking the signal followed by a short
> grace period to allow the processes to free up some memory before
> swapping out pages from that proces
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:09:16 EST, Ric Wheeler said:
> I actually think that the value of this kind of reduction is huge. We
> have seen fsck run for days (not just hours) which makes the "restore
> from backup" versus "fsck" decision favor the tapes...
Funny thing is that for many of these sorts
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:04:41 PST, Andrew Morton said:
> In any decent environment, people will fsck their ext3 filesystems during
> planned downtime, and the benefit of reducing that downtime from 6
> hours/machine to 2 hours/machine is probably fairly small, given that there
> is no service inter
On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:51:32 PST, Eric Anopolsky said:
> their own kernels in the first place. IMHO, it's reasonable to expect
> the small minority of Linux users who want to compile their own kernels
> to learn that "EXPERIMENTAL" means something.
And what, exactly, does it mean, given that ther
On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 22:24:50 CDT, Eric Sandeen said:
> Can you elaborate? Under what circumstances is log replay going to harm
> data? Do you mean that the installer mounts partitions, looking for
> what OS is installed? How is that harmful?
Another usage case that really wants to avoid the l
