From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
To: "Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Cc: Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net>,
Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Frank Kingswood <frank@kingswood-consulting.co.uk>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>,
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>, ck list <ck@vds.kolivas.org>,
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFT: updatedb "morning after" problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:51:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46AB0380.6000302@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46AAF1CF.6060908@gmail.com>
On 07/28/2007 09:35 AM, Rene Herman wrote:
> By the way -- I'm unable to make my slocate grow substantial here but
> I'll try what GNU locate does. If it's really as bad as I hear then
> regardless of anything else it should really be either fixed or dumped...
Yes. GNU locate is broken and nobody should be using it. The updatedb from
(my distribution standard) "slocate" uses around 2M allocated total during
an entire run while GNU locate allocates some 30M to the sort process alone.
GNU locate is also close to 4 times as slow (although that ofcourse only
matters on cached runs anyways).
So, GNU locate is just a pig pushing things out, with or without any added
VFS cache pressure from the things it does by design. As such, we can trust
people complaining about it but should first tell them to switch to halfway
sane locate implementation. If you run memory hogs on small memory boxes,
you're going to suffer.
Leaves the fact that swap-prefetch sometimes helps alleviate these and other
kinds of memory-hog situations and as such, might not (again) be a bad idea
in itself.
Rene.
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2007-07-10 10:15 ` -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 Con Kolivas
2007-07-11 1:02 ` Matthew Hawkins
2007-07-11 1:14 ` [ck] " Andrew Morton
2007-07-11 1:52 ` André Goddard Rosa
2007-07-11 4:25 ` [ck] " André Goddard Rosa
2007-07-11 2:21 ` Ira Snyder
2007-07-11 3:37 ` timotheus
2007-07-11 2:54 ` Matthew Hawkins
2007-07-11 5:18 ` Nick Piggin
2007-07-11 5:47 ` Ray Lee
2007-07-11 5:54 ` Nick Piggin
2007-07-11 6:04 ` Ray Lee
2007-07-11 6:24 ` Nick Piggin
2007-07-11 7:50 ` swap prefetch (Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23) Ingo Molnar
2007-07-11 6:00 ` [ck] Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 Nick Piggin
2007-07-11 3:59 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2007-07-11 12:26 ` Kevin Winchester
2007-07-11 12:36 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-07-12 12:06 ` Kacper Wysocki
2007-07-12 12:35 ` Avuton Olrich
2007-07-22 23:11 ` Con Kolivas
2007-07-23 23:08 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-07-24 3:22 ` Nick Piggin
2007-07-24 4:53 ` Ray Lee
2007-07-24 5:10 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-24 5:18 ` Ray Lee
2007-07-24 5:16 ` Nick Piggin
2007-07-24 16:11 ` -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 - Completely Fair Swap Prefetch Frank Kingswood
2007-07-25 0:59 ` [ck] " Matthew Hawkins
2007-07-24 16:15 ` -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 Ray Lee
2007-07-25 4:06 ` Nick Piggin
2007-07-25 4:55 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-25 5:00 ` Nick Piggin
2007-07-25 5:12 ` david
2007-07-25 5:30 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-25 5:51 ` david
2007-07-25 7:14 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-07-25 8:18 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-25 8:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-25 8:43 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-25 10:53 ` [ck] " Jos Poortvliet
2007-07-25 11:06 ` Nick Piggin
2007-07-25 12:39 ` Jos Poortvliet
2007-07-25 13:30 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-25 13:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-25 17:33 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-07-25 20:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-26 2:32 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-07-26 4:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-26 10:22 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-07-25 11:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-25 11:40 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-25 11:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-25 16:08 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-07-25 22:05 ` Paul Jackson
2007-07-25 22:22 ` Zan Lynx
2007-07-25 22:27 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-07-25 22:28 ` [ck] " Michael Chang
2007-07-25 23:45 ` André Goddard Rosa
2007-07-25 16:02 ` Ray Lee
2007-07-25 20:55 ` Zan Lynx
2007-07-25 21:28 ` Ray Lee
2007-07-26 1:15 ` [ck] " Matthew Hawkins
2007-07-26 1:32 ` Ray Lee
2007-07-26 3:16 ` Matthew Hawkins
2007-07-26 22:30 ` Michael Chang
2007-07-25 5:30 ` Eric St-Laurent
2007-07-25 5:37 ` Nick Piggin
2007-07-25 5:53 ` david
2007-07-25 6:04 ` Nick Piggin
2007-07-25 6:23 ` david
2007-07-25 7:25 ` Nick Piggin
2007-07-25 7:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-25 7:58 ` Nick Piggin
2007-07-25 8:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-25 10:41 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-07-25 6:19 ` [ck] " Matthew Hawkins
2007-07-25 6:30 ` Nick Piggin
2007-07-25 6:47 ` Mike Galbraith
2007-07-25 7:19 ` Eric St-Laurent
2007-07-25 6:44 ` Eric St-Laurent
2007-07-25 16:09 ` Ray Lee
2007-07-26 4:57 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-26 5:53 ` Nick Piggin
2007-07-26 6:06 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-26 6:17 ` Nick Piggin
2007-07-26 6:33 ` Ray Lee
2007-07-26 6:50 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-26 7:43 ` Ray Lee
2007-07-26 7:59 ` Nick Piggin
2007-07-28 0:24 ` Matt Mackall
2007-07-26 14:19 ` [ck] " Michael Chang
2007-07-26 18:13 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-26 22:04 ` Dirk Schoebel
2007-07-26 22:33 ` Dirk Schoebel
2007-07-26 23:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-26 23:29 ` david
2007-07-26 23:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-27 0:12 ` david
2007-07-28 0:12 ` Matt Mackall
2007-07-28 3:42 ` Daniel Cheng
2007-07-28 9:35 ` Stefan Richter
2007-07-25 17:55 ` Frank A. Kingswood
2007-07-25 6:09 ` [ck] " Matthew Hawkins
2007-07-25 6:18 ` Nick Piggin
2007-07-25 16:19 ` Ray Lee
2007-07-25 20:46 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-26 8:38 ` Frank Kingswood
2007-07-26 9:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-26 9:34 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-26 9:40 ` RFT: updatedb "morning after" problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23] Ingo Molnar
2007-07-26 10:09 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-26 10:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-27 0:33 ` [ck] " Matthew Hawkins
2007-07-30 9:33 ` Helge Hafting
2007-07-26 10:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-26 10:38 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-26 12:46 ` Mike Galbraith
2007-07-26 18:05 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-27 5:12 ` Mike Galbraith
2007-07-27 7:23 ` Mike Galbraith
2007-07-27 8:47 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-27 8:54 ` Al Viro
2007-07-27 9:02 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-27 9:40 ` Mike Galbraith
2007-07-27 10:00 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-27 10:25 ` Mike Galbraith
2007-07-27 17:45 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-07-27 18:16 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-27 19:43 ` david
2007-07-28 7:19 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-28 8:55 ` david
2007-07-28 10:11 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-28 11:21 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-28 16:29 ` Ray Lee
2007-07-28 21:03 ` david
2007-07-29 8:11 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-29 13:12 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-29 14:07 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-29 14:58 ` Ray Lee
2007-07-29 14:59 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-29 15:20 ` Ray Lee
2007-07-29 15:36 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-29 16:04 ` Ray Lee
2007-07-29 16:59 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-29 17:19 ` Ray Lee
2007-07-29 17:33 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-29 17:52 ` Ray Lee
2007-07-29 19:05 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-29 17:53 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-29 19:33 ` Paul Jackson
2007-07-29 20:00 ` Ray Lee
2007-07-29 20:18 ` Paul Jackson
2007-07-29 20:23 ` Ray Lee
2007-07-29 21:06 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-07-28 21:00 ` david
2007-07-29 10:09 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-29 11:41 ` david
2007-07-29 14:01 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-29 21:19 ` david
2007-08-06 2:14 ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-06 2:22 ` david
2007-08-06 9:21 ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-06 9:55 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2007-07-28 15:56 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-07-28 21:06 ` david
2007-07-28 21:48 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-07-27 20:28 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-07-28 5:19 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-27 23:15 ` Björn Steinbrink
2007-07-27 23:29 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-28 0:08 ` Björn Steinbrink
2007-07-28 1:10 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-07-29 12:53 ` Paul Jackson
2007-07-28 7:35 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-28 8:51 ` Rene Herman [this message]
2007-07-27 22:08 ` Mike Galbraith
2007-07-27 22:51 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-07-28 7:48 ` Mike Galbraith
2007-07-28 15:36 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-07-29 1:33 ` Rik van Riel
2007-07-29 3:39 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-26 10:20 ` Al Viro
2007-07-26 12:23 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-26 14:59 ` Al Viro
2007-07-11 20:41 ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-27 19:19 ` Paul Jackson
2007-07-26 13:05 ` Fredrik Klasson
2007-07-31 16:37 ` [ck] Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 Matthew Hawkins
2007-08-06 2:11 ` Nick Piggin
2007-07-25 4:46 ` david
2007-07-25 8:00 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-25 8:07 ` david
2007-07-25 8:29 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-25 8:31 ` david
2007-07-25 8:33 ` david
2007-07-25 10:58 ` Rene Herman
2007-07-25 15:55 ` Ray Lee
2007-07-25 20:16 ` Al Boldi
2007-07-27 0:28 ` Magnus Naeslund
2007-07-24 5:18 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-24 6:01 ` Ray Lee
2007-07-24 6:10 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-24 9:38 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-07-25 1:26 ` [ck] " Matthew Hawkins
2007-07-25 1:35 ` David Miller, Matthew Hawkins
2007-07-24 0:08 ` Con Kolivas
2007-07-11 11:39 ` buffered write patches, " Christoph Hellwig
2007-07-11 17:23 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-11 12:23 ` lguest, " Christoph Hellwig
2007-07-11 15:45 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-07-11 18:04 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-12 1:21 ` Rusty Russell
2007-07-12 2:28 ` David Miller, Rusty Russell
2007-07-12 2:48 ` Rusty Russell
2007-07-12 2:51 ` David Miller, Rusty Russell
2007-07-12 3:15 ` Rusty Russell
2007-07-12 3:35 ` David Miller, Rusty Russell
2007-07-12 4:24 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-12 4:52 ` Rusty Russell
2007-07-12 11:10 ` Avi Kivity
2007-07-19 17:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-07-20 3:27 ` Rusty Russell
2007-07-20 7:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-07-12 0:54 ` fault vs invalidate race (Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23) Nick Piggin
2007-07-12 2:31 ` block_page_mkwrite? (Re: fault vs invalidate race (Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23)) David Chinner
2007-07-12 2:42 ` Nick Piggin
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