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Are you sure that this is an attic issue and not just your connection breaking down? E.g. some DSL providers do a nightly disconnect. Can you try doing the same...
That "hang" could be a wait for a lock on that repo maybe. If the other users really use different repos, I don't think there should be side effects. Just...
@cjk that sounds really strange. I would not expect that ssh can time out while a lot of data is flowing over it and that the keep alive is only...
https://github.com/ThomasWaldmann/attic/commits/o_direct I did some O_DIRECT changes there (read the commit comments). Somehow I still see the cache growing rather quickly - I suspect it is due to writes (I only...
See PR #279 for posix_fadvise based solution, it works (on linux, py >= 3.3). \o/ Note: With py 3.2, the repo writes will still spoil the cache as 3.2 does...
from http://linux.die.net/man/2/posix_fadvise : """ Programs can use posix_fadvise() to announce an intention to access file data in a specific pattern in the future, thus allowing the kernel to perform appropriate...
you need to grep again for fadvise (with "s").
@anarcat do you have some more specific info? fadvise acts on a open filehandle (that belongs to the specific file opened by the backup process for reading). I could imagine...
@anarcat I looked through the first 3 links. Lots of guessing and gut feelings (I can do that, too and I even posted reasons why I think it is good,...
See my April 14 comment.