fadvise DONTNEED implementation (or lack thereof)

2010-11-03 Thread Ben Gamari
I've recently been trying to track down the root cause of my server's persistent issue of thrashing horribly after being left inactive. It seems that the issue is likely my nightly backup schedule (using rsync) which traverses my entire 50GB home directory. I was surprised to find that rsync does n

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 7004] Use posix_fadvise to free cached file contents when done

2010-11-03 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7004 --- Comment #1 from bgam...@gmail.com 2010-11-03 07:54 CST --- What is the status of this? Grepping the source for fadvise turns up nothing. It seems the patch has even been ported up to 3.0.7 [1] [1] http://tobi.oetiker.ch/patches/rsyn