Re: [PATCHES] posix advises ...

2008-06-20 Thread Zoltan Boszormenyi
Greg Smith írta: > On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote: > >> This patch (revisited and ported to current CVS HEAD) is indeed using >> Greg's original patch and also added another patch written by Mark Wong >> that helps evicting closed XLOGs from memory faster. > > Great, that will save m

Re: [PATCHES] posix advises ...

2008-06-19 Thread Hans-Juergen Schoenig
good morning, this is wonderful news. this is pretty much what we observed as well. the kernel has acted as showstopper for many setups recently. this patch fixed most cases related to kernel read ahead and so on for us. in fact, posix_fadvise was the only way to prevent a big germany compa

Re: [PATCHES] posix advises ...

2008-06-19 Thread Greg Smith
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote: This patch (revisited and ported to current CVS HEAD) is indeed using Greg's original patch and also added another patch written by Mark Wong that helps evicting closed XLOGs from memory faster. Great, that will save me some trouble. I've got a s

Re: [PATCHES] posix advises ...

2008-06-19 Thread Zoltan Boszormenyi
Greg Smith írta: > On Sun, 11 May 2008, Hans-Juergen Schoenig wrote: > >> we also made some simple autoconf hack to check for broken >> posix_fadvise. > > Because of how you did that, your patch is extremely difficult to even > test. You really should at least scan the output from diff you're > ab

Re: [PATCHES] posix advises ...

2008-05-13 Thread Greg Smith
On Sun, 11 May 2008, Hans-Juergen Schoenig wrote: we also made some simple autoconf hack to check for broken posix_fadvise. Because of how you did that, your patch is extremely difficult to even test. You really should at least scan the output from diff you're about to send before submittin