Re: VM/IO performance sucks in 2.3.99-pre6

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Wed May 03 2000 - 19:15:22 EST


On Wed, 3 May 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:

>Dirty pages should be flushed as fast as possible (they should become
>eligible after 2 seconds to being flushed out to disk). Pre-6 does have

Any fixed number like "2 seconds" won't work. Dirty buffers are just
flushed to disk also immediatly if we're low on memory (that's the job of
kflushd).

Andrea

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