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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Memory pressure handling with iSCSI
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:24:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050726142410.4ff2e56a.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1122412301.6433.54.camel@dyn9047017102.beaverton.ibm.com>

Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> ext2 is incredibly better. Machine is very responsive. 
> 

OK.  Please, always monitor and send /proc/meminfo.  I assume that the
dirty-memory clamping is working OK with ext2 and that perhaps it'll work
OK with ext3/data=writeback.

All very odd.  I wonder how to reproduce this.  Maybe 50 ext3 filesystems
on regular old scsi will do it?

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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Memory pressure handling with iSCSI
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:24:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050726142410.4ff2e56a.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1122412301.6433.54.camel@dyn9047017102.beaverton.ibm.com>

Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> ext2 is incredibly better. Machine is very responsive. 
> 

OK.  Please, always monitor and send /proc/meminfo.  I assume that the
dirty-memory clamping is working OK with ext2 and that perhaps it'll work
OK with ext3/data=writeback.

All very odd.  I wonder how to reproduce this.  Maybe 50 ext3 filesystems
on regular old scsi will do it?
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-26 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-26 17:35 Memory pressure handling with iSCSI Badari Pulavarty
2005-07-26 18:04 ` Roland Dreier
2005-07-26 18:04   ` Roland Dreier
2005-07-26 18:11 ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-26 18:11   ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-26 18:39   ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-07-26 18:39     ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-07-26 18:48     ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-26 18:48       ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-26 19:12       ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-26 19:12         ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-26 20:36         ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-07-26 20:36           ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-07-26 21:11         ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-07-26 21:24           ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-07-26 21:24             ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-26 21:45             ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-07-26 21:45               ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-07-26 22:10               ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-26 22:10                 ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-26 22:48                 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-07-26 23:07                   ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-26 23:07                     ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-26 23:26                     ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-07-26 23:26                       ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-07-27  0:31                       ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-27  0:31                         ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-27  1:20                         ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-07-27  1:20                           ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-07-27  1:26                           ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-27  1:26                             ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-27  1:47                             ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-07-27  1:47                               ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-07-27  1:31                         ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-07-27  1:31                           ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-07-27  1:40                           ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-27  1:40                             ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-26 19:31     ` Sonny Rao
2005-07-26 19:31       ` Sonny Rao
2005-07-26 20:37       ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-07-26 20:37         ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-07-26 21:21         ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-26 21:21           ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-26 20:59 ` Rik van Riel
2005-07-26 20:59   ` Rik van Riel
2005-07-26 21:05   ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-07-26 21:05     ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-07-26 21:33     ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-07-26 21:33       ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-07-26 22:05       ` Adam Litke
2005-07-26 22:05         ` Adam Litke
2005-07-26 21:12   ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-26 21:12     ` Andrew Morton

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