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A few months ago I described a problem in which my gateway box, acting as an |
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rsync portage server to my desktop and portable boxes, was taking several |
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minutes to create and transfer the file list. The transfers of files to |
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synchronise the local portage database with that on the server worked just |
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fine, however. |
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It turns out that the 256 MB of RAM in the server wasn't enough, since as soon |
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as I put in another GB it just flew - about one or two seconds now for file |
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list transfer, which is a factor of 50 or 100 better. |
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The box does run BOINC clients, but at nice 19, so I though that shouldn't be |
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a problem. However, I now remember that my BOINC parameters included a |
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leave-in-memory-while-inactive option, and I suppose that must have been it, |
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though I don't know how the kernel would operate with that setting. |
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Hope someone finds this interesting. |
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Rgds |
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Peter. |
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Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 |
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