kernel work week of 3-Feb-2010 HEADS UP

Justin C. Sherrill justin at shiningsilence.com
Sun Feb 7 18:43:38 PST 2010


On Sun, February 7, 2010 2:29 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     I have just now turned on data caching on leaf too, so both meta-data
>     and data will now be swap-cached so see how that works out.  I have
>     reduced the accrate to 100K/s to see how it effects the bursting over
>     the day.  Ultimately we want the swapcache to be effective with a
>     long-term average write rate in the 100K/s range for MLC drives.
>
>     100K/sec = 8G/day = 5-10 year life span for a $100 SSD which
>     massively improves storage performance.  Win.

Do you have any plans at this point to add an SSD to pkgbox64?  Not
surprisingly, I'd like to see what effect this has on bulk builds.






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