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Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 08:14:10 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, "J.H." <warthog9@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [KORG] Re: kernel.org lies about latest -mm kernel
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Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> A wild idea just occured to me.  You guys are running Fedora/RHEL kernels
> on the kernel.org boxes iirc, which have Ingo's 'tux' httpd accelerator.
> It might not make the problem go away, but it could make it more
> bearable under high load.   Or it might do absolutely squat depending
> on the ratio of static/dynamic content.
> 

Almost the only dynamic content we have (that actually matters) is 
gitweb.  Everything else is static, with Apache parked in sendfile(). 
Far too often in D state.

	-hpa
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