On Tue, 1 Jul 2014 15:57:25 -0400
Robert Haas wrote:
> Of course, we have no guarantee that the Linux kernel guys won't
> change this again. Apparently "we don't break userspace" is a
> somewhat selectively-enforced principle.
It's selectively enforced in that kernel developers don't (and can't
On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 09:23:52 +1100
Dave Chinner wrote:
> It appears to me that we are seeing large memory machines much more
> commonly in data centers - a couple of years ago 256GB RAM was only
> seen in supercomputers. Hence machines of this size are moving from
> "tweaking settings for superco
During the direct I/O discussion I'd suggested that somebody from the
PostgreSQL community might want to put in an appearance at the LSFMM
summit in March. Here's the CFP. My guess is that a proposal for a
session on avoiding performance regressions for systems like PostgreSQL,
probably crossing
On Wed, 04 Dec 2013 13:01:37 -0800
Josh Berkus wrote:
> > Perhaps even better: the next filesystem, storage, and memory management
> > summit is March 24-25.
>
> Link? I can't find anything Googling by that name. I'm pretty sure we
> can get at least one person there.
It looks like the page
On Wed, 04 Dec 2013 11:07:04 -0800
Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 12/04/2013 07:33 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > Wow, Josh, I'm surprised to hear this from you.
>
> Well, I figured it was too angry to propose for an LWN article. ;-)
So you're going to make us write it f
On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 10:44:15 -0800
Josh Berkus wrote:
> It seems clear that Kernel.org, since 2.6, has been in the business of
> pushing major, hackish, changes to the IO stack without testing them or
> even thinking too hard about what the side-effects might be. This is
> perhaps unsurprising g
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:42:04 -0400
Robert Haas wrote:
> As for annotating the commit messages, I think something like:
>
> Reporter: Sam Jones
> Author: Beverly Smith
> Author: Jim Davids
> Reviewer: Fred Block
> Reviewer: Pauline Andrews
Can I just toss in one little note from the sidelines?
nvolved if you'd like to experiment with this feature and see
what it can do for you.
jon
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On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:11:41 -0400
Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> We have a clear idea of what should be part of the public history
> contained in the authoritative repo and what should be history that is
> private to the developer/tester/committer. We don't want to pollute the
> former with the latt
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:34:20 -0400
Robert Haas wrote:
> I have some concerns related to the upcoming conversion to git and how
> we're going to avoid having things get messy as people start using the
> new repository.
Here's a few responses from the point of view of somebody who has been
working
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