HAMMER cleanup

[Bill Hacker]

Edward O'Callaghan wrote:
Hi,

What if your box is running in a production env where it is doing IO
24/7 365days a year. Is stopping at any time to do a load of IO really
that acceptable ?
Regards,
Edward.
Rare indeed is the production box that doesn't have fairly consistent 
peak and valley patterns in that 24 hours - and the week.

Not hard to adjust to those.  And/or 'renice' things to suit.

Bill

2008/10/22 Robert Luciani <rluciani at gmail.com>:
    Laptops might need a 'cleanup' button. I just don't know when the best
    time to run hammer cleanup would be, or for how long.  Desktops might
    make do with an hourly poke.
                                              -Matt

As a sidenote:
If we have some sort of automation in the laptop cleanup system, it would be
nice for it to be aware of whether the laptop is running on battery or not. Sort
of like how "desktop search" programs pause indexing when running on battery power.
--
Robert Luciani
Chalmers University of Technology, SWE
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
http://www.rluciani.com/rluciani@gmail.com.asc