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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:12:15 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Memory pressure handling with iSCSI
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Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> 
> > After KS & OLS discussions about memory pressure, I wanted to re-do
> > iSCSI testing with "dd"s to see if we are throttling writes.  
> 
> Could you also try with shared writable mmap, to see if that
> works ok or triggers a deadlock ?
> 

That'll cause problems for sure, but we need to get `dd' right first :(