> There are basically two ways I think we can address this. We can either
> throttle the writes, or we can extend what we have done recently in
> try_to_free_pages to include dirty buffers. In try_to_free_pages(), we
Throwing out dirty buffers seems the best solution to me, when
there are lots of them. The pages seems more likely to be needed again
than old buffers. Particularly in install/mass copy situations.
Helge Hafting
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