From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Cc: lkml@rtr.ca, dgc@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dirty pages (Was: Re: [PATCH] Prevent large file writeback starvation)
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:04:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060213150457.547ddfb4.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060213224835.GC5565@linuxtv.org>
Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org> wrote:
> > > Now copying a 700MB file makes "Dirty" go up to 350MB. It then
> > > slowly decreases to 325MB and stays there.
> >
> > It shouldn't. Did you really leave it for long enough?
> >
> > If you did, then why does it happen there and not here?
>
> Good question. I just repeated the execise, rebooted and
> copied a 700MB file. After ~30min "Dirty" is down to ~130MB, and
> continues to decrease very slowly.
>
> On my Desktop machine (P4 HT, 1G RAM) "Dirty" goes down near
> zero after ~30sec, as expected.
Are you using any unusual mount options?
Which filesystem types are online (not that this should affect it...)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-13 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-06 4:00 [PATCH] Prevent large file writeback starvation David Chinner
2006-02-06 4:27 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-06 5:48 ` David Chinner
2006-02-06 6:22 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-06 6:36 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-06 11:57 ` David Chinner
2006-02-06 11:55 ` David Chinner
2006-02-06 23:14 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-07 0:34 ` David Chinner
2006-02-07 1:04 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-07 1:31 ` David Chinner
2006-02-07 5:27 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-07 7:42 ` David Chinner
2006-02-07 22:51 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-07 7:49 ` David Chinner
2006-02-06 14:36 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-06 14:39 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-06 20:11 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-13 13:59 ` dirty pages (Was: Re: [PATCH] Prevent large file writeback starvation) Johannes Stezenbach
2006-02-13 20:08 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-13 22:48 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2006-02-13 23:04 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-02-13 23:31 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2006-02-13 23:52 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-14 0:50 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-14 16:32 ` Mark Lord
2006-04-11 12:42 ` Alexander Bergolth
2006-03-20 22:40 ` [PATCH] Prevent large file writeback starvation Alexander Bergolth
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