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Apr 7	comment	Linux cache evictions decreasing surely. Yes they are (decreasing)
Apr 2	comment	Linux cache evictions No - vfs_cache_pressure controls the ratio of meta data vs pagecache retention (at least according to the docs I've read and the experiments I've run)
Mar 27	asked	Linux cache evictions
Mar 27	comment	What is the correct way of setting up a Squid Proxy in front of wireless router What is this magic by which "The ISP's static IP will shift to the Linux box"
Mar 27	answered	Grep of many keywords over many files: speeding it up
Mar 27	accepted	Xorg key clicks?
Mar 27	accepted	handling right click with single button mouse (tablet)
Mar 27	answered	handling right click with single button mouse (tablet)
Feb 23	awarded	Scholar
Feb 23	accepted	Can I read what CCFLAGS were used for building a binary?
Feb 21	comment	Can I read what CCFLAGS were used for building a binary? Thanks Shadok - if you add this as an answer I'll accept it. In my case the code was compiled with gcc 4.5 :) but the binary in question has been stripped :(
Feb 21	comment	How to know if a disk is an SSD or an HDD If this really is a SSD you might want to reformat it to align the erase blocks with the partitions.
Feb 21	comment	How do I test that two connected serial ports really transmit data? I'd have used minicom myself.
Feb 21	asked	Can I read what CCFLAGS were used for building a binary?
Sep 17	comment	Fast way to copy a large file on a LAN Runing rsync against a file accessed over NFS means that the entire contents of the file needs to copied over the network at least once. You don't need a daemon to invoke a client/server rsync - just run it over ssh. (it's theoretically possible to invoke the remote end over telnet / rsh - but rather silly to run such a service in practice - ssh doesn't add a lot of overhead).
Jul 24	comment	Importance of fsck at boot with Journalled filesystems? psusi - what have you been smoking? " Disks do not report writes as completed before..." - yes they do. "enable the write cache, which is disabled by default" - not on any disk I've ever configured. "barriers are used to prevent reordering" - but you said I was "conflating ordering with barriers"
Jul 23	answered	Importance of fsck at boot with Journalled filesystems?
Jul 23	comment	Importance of fsck at boot with Journalled filesystems? There's a lot of missing informaion from this answer hence downvote and answer elsehwere.
Jul 19	awarded	Yearling
Jul 17	comment	Run unix command precisely at very short intervals WITHOUT accumulating time lag over time I think it's also very probable that the programs porg has tested block while running the intended process - which logically they should do to avoid killing the machine they are running on.