ANNOUNCE: rsync stealth mode patch (update)

Hi List, I use rsync with the --link-dir feature for hard-linked snapshot-like backups. If there are large files involved, this will blow away the file-system cache. The result is a bad performance hit for applications that had all their files happily in cache before. Using posix_fadvise and minc

Announce: rsync fadvise (cache dropping) patch updated

Hi List, I have updated my rsync fadvise patch which stops rsync from ousting all your other data from cache when running large jobs. I have also written an article about the whole issue. http://insights.oetiker.ch/linux/fadvise.html cheers tobi -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15

patch to stop rsync from polluting the filesystem cache

Hi List, I am using rsync for hard-link backup. I found that there is a major problem with frequent backup filling up the file system cache with all the data from the files being backed up. The effect is that all the other 'sensible' data in the cache gets thrown out in the process. This is rather

rsync and posix_fadvise

Hi, I use rsync for hardlink-backup ... since I run this quite frequently, linux happily fills its cache with stuff that should not realy go there I have set /proc/sys/vm/swappiness to 0 which helps, but since this acts across board it is not ideal. Better would be to use posix_fadvise to PO