Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

Link: http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Wild-Target/70117581?trkid=5966279

I rated this 3 stars.

Link: http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/Transformers_Dark_of_the_Moon/70153859?trkid=496624

I'm gonna rate this 4 stars.

Link: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Tron_Legacy/70124805?trkid=496624

I rated this 4 stars.

Link: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows_Part_II/70120085?trkid=496624

I rated this 4 stars.

Link: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows_Part_I/70115887?trkid=496624

I rated this 3 stars.

Well, Orac was being somewhat unresponsive this morning.... Looks like early this morning the system stopped answering to Cacti, with the temperature of the GPU rising to a new high. Don't know what the high would've been, because there was no snmp data for a while. GPU temp did recover, but the display did not.

Ended up rebooting, needed the excuse to see external journal work....

Once backup, I switched back to internal journal...but one of maximum size rather than default size. And, then shutdown the system to extract the PCI Compact Flash card. During the reboot to see external journal work...I realized that I wasn't likely to see much performance gain from getting faster compact flash since the card itself was only UDMA/66. So the 133x CF is already faster than the card?

Probably should've fsck'd manually after the switch back....some discussion thread suggested doing this after fiddling with journal settings. But, its fsck'ng now after the boot back up. Apparently superblock had invalid external journal superblock hint? And, auto fsck failed, requiring manual fsck.

Downside of internal journal is that it can only be a max of 400MB (an improvement from the 128MB default I had before)...but that's only like 0.01% of my total space. And, there was a discussion thread that seemed to suggest a journal size of 0.2% would yield better improvement....I didn't do the whole 16GB CF card...though wonder how much that would've helped.... But 0.2% would call for a journal of ~10.9GB. Suppose I could turn off data journaling, especially since there are files that backuppc puts down that are bigger than the 400MB journal. Though I think the ordered/writeback modes usually just do metadata journaling, while I had switched it to data journaling when I was playing with external journals...but I didn't switch it back.

Wonder which of writeback or ordered would be more optimal for this FS?

Full story »

Pages: 1· 2· 3

Link: http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/Inception/70131314?trkid=496624

I rated this 3 stars.

Link: http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/Despicable_Me/70115629?trkid=496624

I rated this 3 stars.

Link: http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/Shrek-Forever-After/70117295?trkid=226870

I rated this 3 stars.

Link: http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/Sherlock-Holmes/70110558?trkid=226870#height1995

I rated this 3 stars.