Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:20:43 -0400 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Avoid the use of congestion_wait under zone pressure |
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On 04/21/2010 12:23 AM, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> IMHO it is fine to prevent that nightly backup job from not being > finished when the user arrives at morning because we didn't give him > some more cache
How on earth would a backup job benefit from cache?
It only accesses each bit of data once, so caching the to-be-backed-up data is a waste of memory.
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