On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 06:07:01PM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Isn't this why noflushd exists or is this an evil thing that shouldn't
> > > ever be used and will eventually eat my disks for breakfast?
> >
> > It would eat your flash for breakfast. You know, flash memori
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 06:07:01PM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Isn't this why noflushd exists or is this an evil thing that shouldn't
> > > ever be used and will eventually eat my disks for breakfast?
> >
> > It would eat your flash for breakfast. You know, flash memori
Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Isn't this why noflushd exists or is this an evil thing that shouldn't
> > ever be used and will eventually eat my disks for breakfast?
>
> It would eat your flash for breakfast. You know, flash memories have
> no spinning parts, so there's nothing to spin down.
Btw Pavel
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 19:32, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > BTW, with nominal 100,000 erases you have to write 10 terabytes
> > to your 100 meg flash disk before you'll see it start to
> > degrade.
>
> That assumes you write out full blocks. If you flush
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> BTW, with nominal 100,000 erases you have to write 10 terabytes
> to your 100 meg flash disk before you'll see it start to
> degrade.
That assumes you write out full blocks. If you flush after
every byte written you'll hit the limit a lot sooner ;)
On Tuesday 19 June 2001 12:46, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > Roger> It does if you are running on a laptop. Then you do not want
> > > > Roger> the pages go out all the time. Disk has gone too sleep, needs
> > > > Roger> to start to write a few pages, stays idle for a while, goes to
> > > > Roger> s
Hi!
> > > Roger> It does if you are running on a laptop. Then you do not want
> > > Roger> the pages go out all the time. Disk has gone too sleep, needs
> > > Roger> to start to write a few pages, stays idle for a while, goes to
> > > Roger> sleep, a few more pages, ...
> > > That could be handle
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 03:23:07PM +, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Roger> It does if you are running on a laptop. Then you do not want
> > Roger> the pages go out all the time. Disk has gone too sleep, needs
> > Roger> to start to write a few pages, stays idle for a while, goes to
> > Roger> sleep,
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Sunday 17 June 2001 12:05, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > It _juuust_ so happens that I was tinkering... what do you think of
> > something like the below? (and boy do I ever wonder what a certain
> > box doing slrn stuff thinks of it.. hint hint;)
>
>
On Sunday 17 June 2001 12:05, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> It _juuust_ so happens that I was tinkering... what do you think of
> something like the below? (and boy do I ever wonder what a certain
> box doing slrn stuff thinks of it.. hint hint;)
It's too subtle for me ;-) (Not shy about sying that b
On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 12:05:10PM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> >
> > It _juuust_ so happens that I was tinkering... what do you think of
> > something like the below? (and boy do I ever wonder what a certain
> > box doing slrn stuff thinks of it.
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 12:05:10PM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> It _juuust_ so happens that I was tinkering... what do you think of
> something like the below? (and boy do I ever wonder what a certain
> box doing slrn stuff thinks of it.. hint hint;)
>
I'm sorry to say this box doesn't real
On Saturday 16 June 2001 23:54, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > > Does the patch below do anything good for your laptop? ;)
> >
> > I'll wait for the next one ;-)
>
> OK, here's one which isn't reversed and should work ;))
>
> --- fs/buffer.c.orig Sat Jun 16
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Saturday 16 June 2001 23:06, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > > As a side note, the good old multisecond delay before bdflush kicks in
> > > doesn't really make a lot of sense - when bandwidth is available the
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > Does the patch below do anything good for your laptop? ;)
>
> I'll wait for the next one ;-)
OK, here's one which isn't reversed and should work ;))
--- fs/buffer.c.origSat Jun 16 18:05:29 2001
+++ fs/buffer.c Sat Jun 16 18:05:15 2001
@@ -255
On Saturday 16 June 2001 23:06, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > As a side note, the good old multisecond delay before bdflush kicks in
> > doesn't really make a lot of sense - when bandwidth is available the
> > filesystem-initiated writeouts should happen rig
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
Oops, I did something stupid and the patch is reversed ;)
> --- buffer.c.orig Sat Jun 16 18:05:15 2001
> +++ buffer.c Sat Jun 16 18:05:29 2001
> @@ -2550,8 +2550,7 @@
> if the current bh is not yet timed out,
>
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> In other words, any episode of pageouts is followed immediately by a
> short episode of preemptive cleaning.
linux/mm/vmscan.c::page_launder(), around line 666:
/* Let bdflush take care of the rest. */
wakeup_bdflush(0
On Friday 15 June 2001 17:23, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Roger> It does if you are running on a laptop. Then you do not want
> > Roger> the pages go out all the time. Disk has gone too sleep, needs
> > Roger> to start to write a few pages, stays idle for a while, goes to
> > Roger> sleep, a f
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