Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Mon Dec 11 08:02:20 2006
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