Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759778AbWLDE47 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Dec 2006 23:56:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759796AbWLDE47 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Dec 2006 23:56:59 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.25]:29620 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759771AbWLDE46 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Dec 2006 23:56:58 -0500 Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 20:56:49 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Cc: "'Tim Schmielau'" , , , Subject: Re: la la la la ... swappiness Message-Id: <20061203205649.98df030b.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200612032356.kB3NuPc0010673@ms-smtp-04.texas.rr.com> References: <200612032356.kB3NuPc0010673@ms-smtp-04.texas.rr.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 671 Lines: 15 On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 17:56:30 -0600 "Aucoin" wrote: > I hope I haven't muddied things up even more but basically what we want to > do is find a way to limit the number of cached pages for disk I/O on the OS > filesystem, even if it drastically slows down the untar and verify process > because the disk I/O we really care about is not on any of the OS > partitions. Try mounting that fs with `-o sync'. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/