Ben Gamari <bgamari.f...@gmail.com> writes: > While going through an old todo list I found that these patches had fallen by > the way-side. About a year ago I initiated a discussion[1] with the Linux > kernel folks regarding the lack of any useable fadvise support on the kernel > side. As a result, I was observing extremely poor performance on my server > after backup as executable pages were being swapped out in favor of data > waiting to be flushed to disk. This is an extremely poor trade-off in the case > of a backup but the user-mode had no way to communicate this to the > kernel as few POSIX implementations had working implementations of > fadvise. > Any opinion on merging this? I'd be happy to port it forward if there are conflicts.
Cheers, - Ben -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
