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Nov 17 03:13:39 <rwhitby> cbrake_away: I saw nslu2 in best buy in austin a month ago, so they must be still making them
Nov 17 16:37:28 <likewise> hi all
Nov 17 16:37:37 <joshin> Howdy
Nov 17 16:38:38 <likewise> Question: http://svn.nslu2-linux.org/svnroot/kernel/trunk/README discusses a section problem with .23 kernels. Does anyone have a pointer to the l-a-k thread on this?
Nov 17 16:39:35 <likewise> I would like to test the most recent kernels I can get a hang of for IXP4xx, even real-time etc. Anyone tried real-time preempt on the ixp4xx yet?
Nov 17 16:41:46 <joshin> Not I.  I'm still trying to figure out how to disable or at least increase the time before oom-killer goes nuts.  My poor NSLU2 with a thumbdrive sometimes goes nuts when under a heavy I/O load.  Best guess is that there's a timeout when trying to hit swap.
Nov 17 17:11:10 <likewise> joshin: you want it to push out dirty pages to disk earlier, so that more room remains available for memory allocations.
Nov 17 17:11:37 <likewise> joshin: I read something on the LKML about this heuristic and parameters.
Nov 17 17:15:27 <joshin> Possibly.  I'll look at that.  But really, my slugs should not be crashing when untarring a huge file or doing other I/O intensive stuff.  
Nov 17 17:15:40 * joshin grumbles about USB disks and flash devices.  :)
Nov 17 20:15:12 <likewise> joshin: ping, see here: http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/linux-pdflush.htm
Nov 17 20:15:31 <likewise> joshin: especially "Tuning Recommendations for write-heavy operations"
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