Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Dec 2006 20:56:49 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: la la la la ... swappiness |
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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.
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