Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-xfs); Wed, 08 Sep 2004 15:08:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail00hq.adic.com ([63.81.117.10]) by oss.sgi.com (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i88M8LRK018002 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 15:08:21 -0700 Received: from mail02hq.adic.com ([172.16.9.18]) by mail00hq.adic.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 15:08:07 -0700 Received: from [172.16.82.67] ([172.16.82.67]) by mail02hq.adic.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 15:08:06 -0700 Message-ID: <413F823F.3020507@xfs.org> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 17:05:51 -0500 From: Steve Lord User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040626) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nathan Scott CC: Jakob Oestergaard , linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Major XFS problems... References: <20040908133954.GB390@unthought.net> <20040909074533.B3958243@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20040909074533.B3958243@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Sep 2004 22:08:06.0866 (UTC) FILETIME=[51B40B20:01C495F0] X-archive-position: 4067 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: lord@xfs.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-xfs Nathan Scott wrote: > On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:39:55PM +0200, Jakob Oestergaard wrote: > >>Dear List, >> >>This mail was originally sent to LKML, but it was suggested to me that I >>post it here as well. Original post follows. > > > Heh, I should probably read all my mail before replying to LKML. :) > Thanks for forwarding. > > cheers. > Hi Nathan, I wonder what the effect of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness and /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure is on these situations. Recent messages on the kernel channel (see thread started by Ray Bryant from sgi), seem to suggest that the behavior of these tunables is very variable. It should be possible to stop the inode cache from taking over the world though. Steve