Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/9] deadlock prevention core

Daniel Phillips
2006-08-18T00:35:41Z

Daniel Phillips wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>> Processes which are dirtying those pages throttle at
>> /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio% of memory dirty. So it is not possible to "fill"
>> memory with dirty pages. If the amount of physical memory which is dirty
>> exceeds 40%: bug.
>
> So we make 400 MB of a 1 GB system unavailable for write caching just to
> get around the network receive starvation issue?

Excuse me, 600 MB of a 1 GB system :-/

Regards,

Daniel