On Monday, January 23, 2017 5:53:35 PM EST Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 04:50:33PM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Can you give me a nudge? My sysctl.conf has only one active line besides > > some netfilter stuff: > > vm.swappiness = 1 > > (This is an SSD, I don’t even have swap on this machine unless I know I > > definitely need it temporarily) > > I'd say the relevant sysctl's are /proc/sys/vm/dirty* and > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode, along with the filesystems and mount options you > are using for the USB drives. Please post these values. Also, could you > get the output of /proc/meminfo while this is happening?
Yup. You need to set vm.dirty_bytes and vm.dirty_background_bytes to something sane, like 10M and 1M, respectively. They default to something like 20% of system memory, and 10% of system memory, respectively...
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