e performance now.
http://symas.com/mdb/ondisk/
I look forward to testing Tux3 when usable code shows up in a public repo.
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Daniel Phillips wrote:
On 04/30/2015 07:28 AM, Howard Chu wrote:
You're reading into it what isn't there. Spreading over the disk isn't (just)
about avoiding
fragmentation - it's about delivering consistent and predictable latency. It is
undeniable that if
you start by
mpact will be negative, the only
question is to what degree.
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Peter Hurley wrote:
On 01/19/2015 02:43 PM, Howard Chu wrote:
The fact that EXTPROC can be manually unset is by design. Quoting
from the original again:
stty.diff:
This file contains the changes needed for the stty(1) program
to report on the current status of the
Peter Hurley wrote:
On 01/19/2015 02:43 PM, Howard Chu wrote:
The fact that EXTPROC can be manually unset is by design. Quoting from the
original again:
stty.diff:
This file contains the changes needed for the stty(1) program
to report on the current status of the TS_EXTPROC bit
works.
You'll have to use a dumb shell to see any effect.
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Peter Hurley wrote:
On 01/19/2015 11:36 AM, Howard Chu wrote:
Peter Hurley wrote:
Thanks, Howard.
[ adding Ted too ]
On 01/19/2015 07:46 AM, Howard Chu wrote:
Peter Hurley wrote:
On 01/18/2015 05:45 PM, Howard Chu wrote:
Peter Hurley wrote:
Commit 26df6d13406d1 ("tty: Add EXTPROC su
Peter Hurley wrote:
Thanks, Howard.
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On 01/19/2015 07:46 AM, Howard Chu wrote:
Peter Hurley wrote:
On 01/18/2015 05:45 PM, Howard Chu wrote:
Peter Hurley wrote:
Commit 26df6d13406d1 ("tty: Add EXTPROC support for LINEMODE") added
the undocumented EXTPROC input
Peter Hurley wrote:
On 01/18/2015 05:45 PM, Howard Chu wrote:
Peter Hurley wrote:
Commit 26df6d13406d1 ("tty: Add EXTPROC support for LINEMODE") added
the undocumented EXTPROC input processing mode, which ignores the ICANON
setting and forces pty slave input to be processed in non
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drivers/tty/n_tty.c | 22 ++
drivers/tty/pty.c | 24 +---
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/n_tty.c b/drivers/t
Peter Hurley wrote:
Hi Howard,
On 01/18/2015 05:09 PM, Howard Chu wrote:
Peter Hurley wrote:
Commit 26df6d13406d1 ("tty: Add EXTPROC support for LINEMODE") added
the undocumented EXTPROC input processing mode, which ignores the ICANON
setting and forces pty slave input to be proces
Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 07:10:32AM -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
Matthew Wilcox wrote:
One of the primary uses for NV-DIMMs is to expose them as a block device
and use a filesystem to store files on the NV-DIMM. While that works,
it currently wastes memory and CPU time
get persistence/safety for every filesystem mounted on
a machine, not just a special case ext4.
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Li Zefan wrote:
On 2013/12/11 10:59, Howard Chu wrote:
I just upgraded a system from a 3.5 kernel to 3.12.3 and attempted to run some
new benchmarks on it. I see my test program ramps up in CPU usage for a few
seconds and then it gradually tails off
Howard Chu wrote:
Li Zefan wrote:
On 2013/12/11 10:59, Howard Chu wrote:
I just upgraded a system from a 3.5 kernel to 3.12.3 and attempted to run some
new benchmarks on it. I see my test program ramps up in CPU usage for a few
seconds and then it gradually tails off. There's nothing ob
Li Zefan wrote:
On 2013/12/11 10:59, Howard Chu wrote:
I just upgraded a system from a 3.5 kernel to 3.12.3 and attempted to run some
new benchmarks on it. I see my test program ramps up in CPU usage for a few
seconds and then it gradually tails off. There's nothing obvious in the user
] perf samples too long (285964 > 142857), lowering
kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 1000
[208528.976208] perf samples too long (283799 > 25), lowering
kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 500
Why is the kernel throttling my server?
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g a
kill -9 on the VM, then you can resume the VM pretty quickly instead of
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Jan Kara wrote:
Hello,
Hi Jan, thanks for your answers.
On Sat 07-09-13 17:01:10, Howard Chu wrote:
The documentation for dirty_expire_centisecs states: "Data which has
been dirty in-memory for longer than this interval will be written
out next time a flusher thread wakes up.
progress without any
delay but that doesn't seem to be the case.
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Jan Kara wrote:
On Fri 08-03-13 12:04:46, Howard Chu wrote:
The test clearly is accessing only 30GB of data. Once slapd reaches
this process size, the test can be stopped and restarted any number
of times, run for any number of hours continuously, and memory use
on the system is unchanged, and
Johannes Weiner wrote:
On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 07:00:55AM -0800, Howard Chu wrote:
Chris Friesen wrote:
On 03/08/2013 03:40 AM, Howard Chu wrote:
There is no way that a process that is accessing only 30GB of a mmap
should be able to fill up 32GB of RAM. There's nothing else running o
Chris Friesen wrote:
On 03/08/2013 03:40 AM, Howard Chu wrote:
There is no way that a process that is accessing only 30GB of a mmap
should be able to fill up 32GB of RAM. There's nothing else running on
the machine, I've killed or suspended everything else in userland
besides a cou
Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 11:46:39PM -0800, Howard Chu wrote:
You're misreading the information then. slapd is doing no caching of
its own, its RSS and SHR memory size are both the same. All it is
using is the mmap, nothing else. The RSS == SHR == FS cache, up to
already tried setting it to 0 with no effect.
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Howard Chu wrote:
Howard Chu wrote:
Howard Chu wrote:
2 questions:
why is there data in the FS cache that isn't owned by (the mmap of) the
process that caused it to be paged in in the first place?
is there a tunable knob to discourage the page cache from stealing from
the
pr
Howard Chu wrote:
Howard Chu wrote:
2 questions:
why is there data in the FS cache that isn't owned by (the mmap of) the
process that caused it to be paged in in the first place?
is there a tunable knob to discourage the page cache from stealing from the
process?
This Unmapped
Howard Chu wrote:
2 questions:
why is there data in the FS cache that isn't owned by (the mmap of) the
process that caused it to be paged in in the first place?
is there a tunable knob to discourage the page cache from stealing from the
process?
This Unmapped page cache control
7;t get there without a lot of
babysitting.
2 questions:
why is there data in the FS cache that isn't owned by (the mmap of) the
process that caused it to be paged in in the first place?
is there a tunable knob to discourage the page cache from stealing from the
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On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 03:25:53PM -0800, Howard Chu wrote:
I have to agree that, if this is going to be an ext4-specific
feature, then it can just be implemented via an ext4-specific ioctl
and be done with it. But I'm not convinced this should be an
ext4-specific fe
known to belong to the same user, then the whole argument about "seeing
someone else's data" is moot. If you provide the uid=/gid= mount options
generically across all (or most) filesystem types, then you can let a sysadmin
decide if they want to play this way or not.
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Ric Wheeler wrote:
On 11/16/2012 10:06 AM, Howard Chu wrote:
David Lang wrote:
barriers keep getting mentioned because they are a easy concept to understand.
"do this set of stuff before doing any of this other set of stuff, but I don't
care when any of this gets done" and the
it. And in most cases it would be a zero-cost fix for them.
Once you have drives that are actually trustworthy, actually reliable (which
doesn't mean they never fail, it only means they tell the truth about
successes or failures), most of these other issues disappear. Most of the need
filesystems and/or
devices, so per-file control would be tedious. You would most likely want to
say "all writes to this string of devices should be order-preserving" and
forget about it. With that guarantee, a careful writer can have perfectly
intact data structures all the time, witho
Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:33:30AM -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
So now I have this, which is pretty much
what
I wanted:
reg00: base=0x ( 0MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0x8000 (2048MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1
reg02: base
etup
that the BIOS left me with, this is still a no-go. There's no way to get the
desired effect without completely reinitializing the MTRRs.
Of course, this isn't the only problem with these Asus BIOSs...
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Yinghai Lu wrote:
On 9/14/07, Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, was wondering if anyone else has been tripped up by this... I've got 4GB of
RAM in my Asus A8V Deluxe and memory hole mapping enabled in the BIOS. By
default, my system boots up with these MTRR settings:
h I'm not sure that would have helped in
this case.
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Let me know what other info you need.
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but I was
thinking one could get a snapshot of that, correlated with traces from a
malloc profiler, to show what portions of a program's memory usage was in
active use vs idle.
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cales better than
just holding onto one lock or a small number of locks.
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n a machine with only 2GB of free RAM. Walk through each memory range
and make sure the balance of memory shifts as expected. Cycle that, increase
the stride on each cycle, and toss some other variations in there. You don't
need to drive real apps, you just need to have a couple of threads e
the performance cost would come down.)
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visible. With the aperture set to 256MB, the full 4096MB are visible.
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Pekka Enberg wrote:
On 9/5/05, Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So, any guesses why with otherwise identical config options, a kernel
with SMP enabled doesn't boot up with all of the device nodes that it
should? (Both drives are on the same controller. I haven't check
enabled doesn't boot up with all of the device nodes that it
should? (Both drives are on the same controller. I haven't checked to
see if any other device files are missing.)
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into a "Soft Off" state, which is probably why the anomaly
persists across a power off. You should also test if powering off and
removing the power plug will allow booting to XP to work.
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Florian Weimer wrote:
* Howard Chu:
> That's not the complete story. BerkeleyDB provides a
> db_env_set_func_yield() hook to tell it what yield function it
> should use when its internal locking routines need such a function.
> If you don't set a specific hook, it
ld functions to work in System scope.
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Nikita Danilov wrote:
Howard Chu writes:
> That's beside the point. Folks are making an assertion that
> sched_yield() is meaningless; this example demonstrates that there are
> cases where sched_yield() is essential.
It is not essential, it is non-portable.
Code you describ
ss if the end result isn't useful. Windows NT
has a POSIX-compliant subsystem but it is utterly useless. That's what
you wind up with when all you do is conform to the letter of the spec.
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Lee Revell wrote:
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 11:38 -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
> But I also found that I needed to add a new yield(), to work around
> yet another unexpected issue on this system - we have a number of
> threads waiting on a condition variable, and the thread holding the
> m
thread (not
process) to yield the processor.
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reality says otherwise.
To say that sched_yield is basically meaningless is far overstating your
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Nikita Danilov wrote:
Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> concurrency. It is the nature of such a system to encounter
> deadlocks over the normal course of operations. When a deadlock is
> detected, some thread must be chosen (by one of a variety of
> algorithms) to abo
Chris Wedgwood wrote:
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:03:45PM -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
> If the 2.6 kernel makes this programming model unreasonably slow,
> then quite simply this kernel is not viable as a database platform.
Pretty much everyone else manages to make it work.
An
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:44:43 -0700
Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just recently compiled the 2.6.12.3 kernel for my x86_64 machine
(Asus A8V motherboard); was previously running a SuSE-compiled 2.6.8
kernel (SuSE 9.2 distro). I'm now seeing ext
cs, just a very slow transmit rate. Does anyone recognize this
symptom? Any suggestions on tunables to tweak, etc.? (Please cc: me
directly when replying, thanks.)
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