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I am the admin of this wiki and spent almost a day migrating all the old contents over to the new version. The new wiki should be a lot safer from wiki spammers, looks nicer and appears to be much nicer to use, too. | attachment:riel.png |
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As you can see from Kernel001WalkThrough and other brilliant pieces of content, moving over the old wiki content was a good use of my time. I am amazed at the quality of the content some people have contributed to this wiki and I hope there will be lots more in the future. | ---- I am a Linux kernel developer (working for [http://www.redhat.com/ Red Hat]) by day and an anti-spam activist by night. For some values of "day" and "night", of course. In my spare time I hike mountains and play with radios (and radio software). I am the admin of this wiki, and try to make sure it all runs smoothly. |
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---- OPW Round 12 small tasks: * Cause the system to swap, and use ftrace and the trace points in mm/page_alloc.c and mm/vmscan.c to determine how long it takes to allocate (and free) pages. * Repeat the same exercise when the system is under heavy filesystem read IO, and when doing lots of filesystem writes (enough to fill up memory). * Use kernelshark to visually examine the observed latencies. * You can email me your ftrace commandlines (or scripts), observations, and questions. ---- CategoryHomepage |
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I am a Linux kernel developer (working for [http://www.redhat.com/ Red Hat]) by day and an anti-spam activist by night. For some values of "day" and "night", of course. In my spare time I hike mountains and play with radios (and radio software).
I am the admin of this wiki, and try to make sure it all runs smoothly.
If you ever run into technical problems with this wiki, please send me an email (riel@surriel.com) and I will fix things.
Have fun,
Rik van Riel
OPW Round 12 small tasks:
- Cause the system to swap, and use ftrace and the trace points in mm/page_alloc.c and mm/vmscan.c to determine how long it takes to allocate (and free) pages.
- Repeat the same exercise when the system is under heavy filesystem read IO, and when doing lots of filesystem writes (enough to fill up memory).
- Use kernelshark to visually examine the observed latencies.
- You can email me your ftrace commandlines (or scripts), observations, and questions.