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Message-Id: <1185529244.7851.51.camel@Homer.simpson.net> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:40:44 +0200 From: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Frank Kingswood <frank@...gswood-consulting.co.uk>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>, Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>, ck list <ck@....kolivas.org>, Paul Jackson <pj@....com>, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFT: updatedb "morning after" problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23] On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 01:47 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Anyway, blockdev pagecache is a problem, I expect. It's worth playing with > that patch. (may tinker a bit, but i'm way rusty. ain't had the urge to mutilate anything down there in quite a while... works just fine for me these days) > Another problem is atime updates. You really do want to mount noatime. > Because with atimes enabled, each touch of a file will touch its inode and > will keep its backing blockdev pagecache page in core. Yeah, I mount noatime,nodiratime,data=writeback. ext3's journal with my crusty old disk/fs is painful as heck. -Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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