Re: kernel.org mirroring (Re: [GIT PULL] MMC update)

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Dec 10, 2006, 21:01 UTC
Message-ID: <457C75BE.1010805@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612101129190.12500@woody.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> Now, hopefully some of it will be in the disk cache, but when the 
> mirroring happens, it will basically blow the disk caches away totally 
> (when using the "--checksum" option), and then you literally have tens of 
> seconds to generate that one top-level page. 
>

If that was the only time that happened, it would be a non-issue, since that only happens once every 96 hours. However, the problem is that we now have lots of large datasets that blow out the caches on a much more frequent basis.

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