Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:24:06 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: RFT: updatedb "morning after" problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23] |
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* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> Setting it to zero will maximise the preservation of the vfs caches. > You wanted 10000 there.
ok, updated patch below :-)
> <bets that nobody will test this>
wrong, it's active on three of my boxes already :) But then again, i never had these hangover problems. (not really expected with gigs of RAM anyway)
Ingo
--- /etc/cron.daily/mlocate.cron.orig +++ /etc/cron.daily/mlocate.cron @@ -1,4 +1,7 @@ #!/bin/sh nodevs=$(< /proc/filesystems awk '$1 == "nodev" { print $2 }') renice +19 -p $$ >/dev/null 2>&1 +PREV=`cat /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure 2>/dev/null` +echo 10000 > /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure 2>/dev/null /usr/bin/updatedb -f "$nodevs" +[ "$PREV" != "" ] && echo $PREV > /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure 2>/dev/null - 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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