Re: Why we need delayed allocation!

On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 12:43:30PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> drops to 4MB/s because of the fragmentation).  There is a 2.6 heuristic
> to colour the allocations based on pid, but that wouldn't help Lustre
> (or NFS or Samba) where the pid of the service thread is randomly chosen
> from a pool for each RPC.

Please leave samba out of that list since it does use one fixed pid for each
user & host.


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