On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 12:12 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Can you please reduce the number of filesystems, see if that reduces the > > dirty levels? > > Also, it's conceivable that ext3 is implicated here, so it might be saner > to perform initial investigation on ext2. > > (when kjournald writes back a page via its buffers, the page remains > "dirty" as far as the VFS is concerned. Later, someone tries to do a > writepage() on it and we'll discover the buffers' cleanness and the page > will be cleaned without any I/O being performed. All the throttling > _should_ work OK in this case. But ext2 is more straightforward.)
I will try ext2 next. - Badari - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
