Re: RFC on io-stalls patch

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Wed Jul 16 2003 - 07:59:33 EST


On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:46:56PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Well it's a combined problem. Threshold too high on dirty memory,
> someone doing a read well get stuck flushing out as well.

a pure read not. the write throttling should be per-process, then there
will be little risk.

Andrea
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