Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:09:01 -0700 | From | "Ray Lee" <> | Subject | Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 |
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Hey Eric,
On 7/24/07, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > Eric St-Laurent wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-25-07 at 06:55 +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > > > > > >>It certainly doesn't run for me ever. Always kind of a "that's not the > >>point" comment but I just keep wondering whenever I see anyone complain > >>about updatedb why the _hell_ they are running it in the first place. If > >>anyone who never uses "locate" for anything simply disable updatedb, the > >>problem will for a large part be solved. > >> > >>This not just meant as a cheap comment; while I can think of a few similar > >>loads even on the desktop (scanning a browser cache, a media player indexing > >>a large amount of media files, ...) I've never heard of problems _other_ > >>than updatedb. So just junk that crap and be happy. > > > > > >>From my POV there's two different problems discussed recently: > > > > - updatedb type of workloads that add tons of inodes and dentries in the > > slab caches which of course use the pagecache. > > > > - streaming large files (read or copying) that fill the pagecache with > > useless used-once data
No, there's a third case which I find the most annoying. I have multiple working sets, the sum of which won't fit into RAM. When I finish one, the kernel had time to preemptively swap back in the other, and yet it didn't. So, I sit around, twiddling my thumbs, waiting for my music player to come back to life, or thunderbird, or... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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