On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 11:37:46 -0800
Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net> wrote:

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> On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 11:18 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > >
> > >>> BTW, yesterday my 2.4 patches were not published, but I noticed that
> > >>> they were not even signed not bziped on hera. At first I simply thought
> > >>> it was related, but right now I have a doubt. Maybe the automatic script
> > >>> has been temporarily been disabled on hera too ?
> > >> The script that deals with the uploads also deals with the packaging -
> > >> so yes the problem is related.
> > > 
> > > and with the finger_banner and version info on www.kernel.org page?
> > 
> > Yes, they're all connected.
> > 
> > The load on *both* machines were up above the 300s yesterday, probably 
> > due to the release of a new Knoppix DVD.
> > 
> > The most fundamental problem seems to be that I can't tell currnt Linux 
> > kernels that the dcache/icache is precious, and that it's way too eager 
> > to dump dcache and icache in favour of data blocks.  If I could do that, 
> > this problem would be much, much smaller.

Usually people complain about the exact opposite of this.

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> Isn't setting the vm.vfs_cache_pressure sysctl below 100 supposed to do
> this?

yup.
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