{"id":850,"date":"2007-06-27T11:48:44","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T01:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/27\/things-that-have-recently-stalled\/"},"modified":"2007-06-27T11:48:44","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T01:48:44","slug":"things-that-have-recently-stalled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/27\/things-that-have-recently-stalled\/","title":{"rendered":"Things that have recently stalled&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>compressed backup patch\n<ul>\n<li>actually works rather well&#8230; and restoring from compressed backup too.<\/li>\n<li>need to modify the rate-limiting code though&#8230; may as well rate limit the writing of the *compressed* data stream&#8230; otherwise the option isn&#8217;t nearly as useful<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>compressed LCP patch\n<ul>\n<li>well&#8230; the *restoring* of compressed LCPs&#8230;. can write them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>working out exactly what more information I want out of the linux memory manager to find out what kswapd is really doing (and the patch that exports the right info)<\/li>\n<li>re-jigging my procmail filters for commits@lists.mysql.com<\/li>\n<li>fixing up my offlineimap patch and getting it in upstream<\/li>\n<li>disk pre-allocation for MythTV recordings<\/li>\n<li>buying workstation<\/li>\n<li>unpacking the last few boxes around the house<\/li>\n<li>finishing this list.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>compressed backup patch actually works rather well&#8230; and restoring from compressed backup too. need to modify the rate-limiting code though&#8230; may as well rate limit the writing of the *compressed* data stream&#8230; otherwise the option isn&#8217;t nearly as useful compressed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/27\/things-that-have-recently-stalled\/\">Continue reading <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":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything","category-mysql"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-dI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":900,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/03\/compressed-lcp-and-compressed-backup-and-switching-them-onoff-online\/","url_meta":{"origin":850,"position":0},"title":"Compressed LCP and Compressed Backup (and switching them on\/off online)","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2007-10-03","format":false,"excerpt":"Quick experiment with online changing of enabling\/disabling compressed backups and local checkpoints (LCPs). 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