From: Dave Pifke <dave@birthdayalarm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about buffer usage
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:23:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4356D55D.5060303@birthdayalarm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051019154940.55f18786.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> It could be a JFS quirk - I don't know much about JFS. It'd be
interesting
> to know if other filesystems behave in a similar manner.
I have two more machines on order, so perhaps I'll try a different
filesystem on them and report back if it makes a difference.
> One thing you could do is to (re)mount the filesystems with `-o noatime'.
I probably should have mentioned that this is already the case.
> That should release _some_ of the blockdev pagecache, but not a lot, I
> expect. Maybe JFS is just metadata-intensive..
There appears to be a jfs-discussion mailing list on SourceForge; I'll
try asking there.
--
Dave Pifke, dave@bebo.com
Sr. System Administrator, www.bebo.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-19 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-19 21:59 Dave Pifke
2005-10-19 22:49 ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-19 23:23 ` Dave Pifke [this message]
2005-10-20 2:45 ` Dave Kleikamp
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