Ron Johnson wrote:
Yeah: it's felony asault to whack him with a stick for being a
ricer or a lame Mandrake expat (or both). :P
Neither. He's just been indoctorated by years of FreeBSD's makeworld. I
got to hear him crow over how his 2nd stage was done compiling and then how
fast it went aw
On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 13:30 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Nate Duehr wrote:
> > So we yanked the UML's and just went with a single shared box and some
> > rules about who could change what.
>
> Rats, was hoping for some pointers here. A friend and I are looking
> into
> splitting a dedicated
Nate Duehr wrote:
So we yanked the UML's and just went with a single shared box and some
rules about who could change what.
Rats, was hoping for some pointers here. A friend and I are looking into
splitting a dedicated server in half with 2 UMLs. We'd retain our presence
out on the net for
Ivan Garcia wrote:
--- Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
Steve Lamb wrote:
* A machine whose sole purpose is to host UMLs
being the one case I can
think
of that would require the OS to not use cache.
This is because the UMLs
themselves are caching the files
On Thursday 16 December 2004 4:35 pm, Ivan Garcia wrote:
> --- Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
>
> > Uggh... I ran into that when experimenting with
> > UML's. Good lord, it
> > hurt performance badly.
> Does it mean that it's posible?
>
> So how does it work?
Again, unless you have
--- Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> Steve Lamb wrote:
>
> > * A machine whose sole purpose is to host UMLs
> being the one case I can
> > think
> > of that would require the OS to not use cache.
> This is because the UMLs
> > themselves are caching the files thus there is no
> need
Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja wrote:
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 11:26:14PM +, Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja wrote:
At the moment of that cat /proc/meminfo i was only coping an mpeg file
from the cdrom to usb hd and just surfing the web when the mouse start
responding funy so i just stoped tomcat and eclipse but t
Steve Lamb wrote:
* A machine whose sole purpose is to host UMLs being the one case I can
think
of that would require the OS to not use cache. This is because the UMLs
themselves are caching the files thus there is no need for the host OS to
cache the same files.
Uggh... I ran into that when expe
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 05:51:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > At the moment of that cat /proc/meminfo i was only coping an mpeg file
> > from the cdrom to usb hd and just surfing the web when the mouse start
> > responding funy so i just stoped tomcat and eclipse but the happiness
> > didnt last
On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 23:26 +, Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:34:45PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 22:24 +, Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > how can i limit the amount of this cache linux uses?
> >
> > You can't. By
Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja wrote:
> how can i limit the amount of this cache linux uses?
>
> i'm using an external usb hd for playing movies/mp3 but
> after a time of usage the memory becomes full and the system
> virtually unusable and i got to umount/mount the drive to
> keep working
You don't say
Ron Johnson wrote:
Operating on huge files will always cause the kind of problems
you describe. Why? Because when you run the cp (or dd or what-
ever) command, the OS takes and starts loading that file into
cache, while writing it out to the destination. So what? The
Last In, First Out algorith
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 11:26:14PM +, Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja wrote:
> At the moment of that cat /proc/meminfo i was only coping an mpeg file
> from the cdrom to usb hd and just surfing the web when the mouse start
> responding funy so i just stoped tomcat and eclipse but the happiness
> didnt la
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:34:45PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 22:24 +, Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > how can i limit the amount of this cache linux uses?
>
> You can't. By design, it's totally dynamic.
>
> > i'm using an external usb hd for playing
Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja wrote:
how can i limit the amount of this cache linux uses?
I can only think of one reason why one would want to do this...
i'm using an external usb hd for playing movies/mp3 but
after a time of usage the memory becomes full and the system
virtually unusable and i got t
On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 22:24 +, Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> how can i limit the amount of this cache linux uses?
You can't. By design, it's totally dynamic.
> i'm using an external usb hd for playing movies/mp3 but
> after a time of usage the memory becomes full and the system
Hi all,
how can i limit the amount of this cache linux uses?
i'm using an external usb hd for playing movies/mp3 but
after a time of usage the memory becomes full and the system
virtually unusable and i got to umount/mount the drive to
keep working
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /proc/meminfo
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