From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Cc: colpatch@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Make balance_dirty_pages zone aware (1/2)
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 21:14:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031124211415.501ab952.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1070800000.1069736303@[10.10.2.4]>
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> wrote:
>
> "dd if=/dev/zero of=foo" would trigger it, I'd think. Watching the IO
> rate, it should go wierd after ram is full (on a 3 or more node system,
> so there's < 40% of RAM for each node).
We should just prod kswapd into cleansing the relevant zone(s) and go do
allocation from the next one.
> Yeah, I know you're going to give me crap for not actually trying it
How much would you like?
(Wanders off, wondering how to fix a problem which cannot be
demonstrated).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-25 5:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-22 0:49 [RFC] Make balance_dirty_pages zone aware (1/2) Matthew Dobson
2003-11-23 22:36 ` Andrew Morton
2003-11-24 15:36 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-11-24 18:00 ` Andrew Morton
2003-11-25 0:10 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-11-25 1:05 ` Andrew Morton
2003-11-25 4:58 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-11-25 5:14 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-11-25 5:23 ` Andrew Morton
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