{"id":86,"date":"2007-07-26T12:47:23","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T11:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/2007\/07\/26\/kernel-humour\/"},"modified":"2007-07-26T12:47:23","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T11:47:23","slug":"kernel-humour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Kernel Humour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unfortunate <a href=\"http:\/\/thread.gmane.org\/gmane.linux.kernel.virtualization\/3496\">limerick cascade<\/a> on the Linux Kernel Mailing List is a horror to behold.<\/p>\n<p>However I have to share with you Alan Cox&#8217;s song about memory management to the tune of the Beatles Eleanor Rigby.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAh look at all the laundered pages<br \/>\nAh look at all the laundered pages<\/p>\n<p>Handling Pages<br \/>\nPick up the list and the link where kswap has been<br \/>\nA paging scheme<br \/>\nRuns down the I\/O<br \/>\nWatching the queues that now keep me a list of the store<br \/>\nWho is it for<\/p>\n<p>All the laundered pages<br \/>\nWhere do they all come from<br \/>\nAll the laundered pages<br \/>\nWhere do they all belong<\/p>\n<p>Meeting bdflush<br \/>\nWriting the pages of a disk file that no one will clear<br \/>\nNo task comes near<br \/>\nLook at it working<br \/>\nSleeping a lot in the night when there&#8217;s no pressure there<br \/>\nWhat does it care<\/p>\n<p>All the laundered pages<br \/>\nWhere do they all come from<br \/>\nAll the laundered pages<br \/>\nWhere do they all belong<\/p>\n<p>Ah look at all the laundered pages<br \/>\nAh look at all the laundered pages<\/p>\n<p>Oracle DB<br \/>\nDied under load and was freed along with its name<br \/>\nNo admin came<br \/>\nGood old bdflush<br \/>\nWiping the dirt from the pages as it walks down the chain<br \/>\nNothing was aged<\/p>\n<p>All the laundered pages<br \/>\n(Ah look at all the laundered pages)<br \/>\nWhere do they all come from<br \/>\nAll the laundered pages<br \/>\n(Ah look at all the laundered pages)<br \/>\nWhere do they all belong\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unfortunate limerick cascade on the Linux Kernel Mailing List is a horror to behold. However I have to share with you Alan Cox&#8217;s song about memory management to the tune of the Beatles Eleanor Rigby. Ah look at all the laundered pages Ah look at all the laundered pages Handling Pages Pick up the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=86\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kernel Humour<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}