Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation)

Paolo Ornati
2007-04-28T16:57:18Z

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:30:06 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> There are worse examples. Try connecting some flash disk over USB-1, and
> untar to it. Ugh.
>
> I'd love to have some per-device dirty limit, but it's harder than it
> should be.

this one should help:

Patch: per device dirty throttling
http://lwn.net/Articles/226709/

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Paolo Ornati
Linux 2.6.21-cfs-v7-g13fe02de on x86_64