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From: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Con Kolivas <conman@kolivas.net>
Subject: Re: 2.[45] fixes for design locking bug in wait_on_page/wait_on_buffer/get_request_wait
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 18:43:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200211161841.59889.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021116173224.GG31697@dualathlon.random>

On Saturday 16 November 2002 18:32, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

Hi Andrea,

> you may want to try with this setting that helps with very slow devices:
> 	echo 2 500 0 0 500 3000 3 1 0 > /proc/sys/vm/bdflush
>
> or also with my current default tuned for high performance:
> 	echo 50 500 0 0 500 3000 60 20 > /proc/sys/vm/bdflush
I've tested both without any changes, "pausings" are still there.

> you may have too many dirty buffers around and you end running at disk
> speed at every memory allocation, the first setting will decrease the
> amount of dirty buffers dramatically, if you still have significant
> slowdown with the first setting above, it's most probably only the usual
> elevator issue.
Seems so.

So I have to use 2.4.18 until there is a real proper fix for that.

ciao, Marc

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-16 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-16 16:24 2.[45] fixes for design locking bug in wait_on_page/wait_on_buffer/get_request_wait Marc-Christian Petersen
2002-11-16 16:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-16 17:23   ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2002-11-16 17:32     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-16 17:43       ` Marc-Christian Petersen [this message]
2002-11-16 18:46         ` Andrea Arcangeli
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-16 18:58 Marc-Christian Petersen
2002-11-16 21:55 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2002-11-17 17:37   ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2002-11-17 19:19     ` Folkert van Heusden
2002-11-12  3:57 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-12  8:50 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-12 18:15   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-12 19:46     ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-13  0:33       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-13  1:01         ` Andrew Morton

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