[23546] in Source-Commits
/svn/athena r23188 - trunk/debathena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghudson@MIT.EDU)
Wed Sep 24 10:59:56 2008
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:59:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: ghudson@MIT.EDU
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Author: ghudson
Date: 2008-09-24 10:59:05 -0400 (Wed, 24 Sep 2008)
New Revision: 23188
Modified:
trunk/debathena/NOTES
Log:
In the NOTES section on setting up a build server, turn off the use of
the LVM cache file. This cache is not cleaned up as volumes are
destroyed, and eventually becomes huge enough to create the
performance problem mentioned in r23185.
Modified: trunk/debathena/NOTES
===================================================================
--- trunk/debathena/NOTES 2008-09-23 17:24:58 UTC (rev 23187)
+++ trunk/debathena/NOTES 2008-09-24 14:59:05 UTC (rev 23188)
@@ -360,7 +360,9 @@
12. Edit /etc/lvm/lvm.conf and change "archive = 1" to "archive = 0"
in order to avoid generating a bazillion backup files under
- /etc/lvm/archive.
+ /etc/lvm/archive. Also change "write_cache_state = 1" to
+ "write_cache_state = 0" to prevent the system from piling up a
+ huge cache file as it cycles through snapshots.
13. For each supported DIST (see scripts/debian-versions.sh) run:
