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

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: 2006-12-11 08:01:50
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
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