Re: [Beowulf] Linux page cache and pdflush

2013-04-26 Thread Mark Hahn
>> Drepper, What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory >> http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf > > Fred, 114 pages on memory and cache management at Beer O'clock on a Friday well, it's exhaustively comprehensive, even pedantically so. you'll either already know or want to ski

Re: [Beowulf] Linux page cache and pdflush

2013-04-26 Thread Fred Youhanaie
On 26/04/13 16:53, Hearns, John wrote: > >> This long paper, by a former RH employee, does cover the subject area pretty >> well: > >> Drepper, What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory >> http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf >> (Yes, the title is homage to the Goldbe

Re: [Beowulf] Linux page cache and pdflush

2013-04-26 Thread Hearns, John
> This long paper, by a former RH employee, does cover the subject area pretty > well: > Drepper, What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory > http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf > (Yes, the title is homage to the Goldberg paper!) Fred, 114 pages on memory and cac

Re: [Beowulf] Linux page cache and pdflush

2013-04-26 Thread Fred Youhanaie
This long paper, by a former RH employee, does cover the subject area pretty well: Drepper, What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf (Yes, the title is homage to the Goldberg paper!) I haven't followed all of the discuss

Re: [Beowulf] Linux page cache and pdflush

2013-04-26 Thread Max R. Dechantsreiter
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Peter St. John wrote: > Well fwiw a RHEL subscriber would be able to get it from the Customer > Support Portal. I am not a customer. > Peter > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Max R. Dechantsreiter < > m...@performancejones.com> wrote: > >> Given recent discussion, I th

Re: [Beowulf] Linux page cache and pdflush

2013-04-25 Thread Mark Hahn
>> http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/linux-pdflush.htm only tangentially. I do normally tune the dirty parameters to write/clean dirty pages more agressively, but this really has nothing to do with the drop_cache behavior being advocated. >> If anyone knows of a more recent version of the

Re: [Beowulf] Linux page cache and pdflush

2013-04-25 Thread Peter St. John
Well fwiw a RHEL subscriber would be able to get it from the Customer Support Portal. Peter On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Max R. Dechantsreiter < m...@performancejones.com> wrote: > Given recent discussion, I thought this might be of general interest: > > http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content

[Beowulf] Linux page cache and pdflush

2013-04-24 Thread Max R. Dechantsreiter
Given recent discussion, I thought this might be of general interest: http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/linux-pdflush.htm If anyone knows of a more recent version of the RHEL paper referenced therein: http://people.redhat.com/nhorman/papers/rhel4_vm.pdf I would be very interested.