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

John Anthony Kazos Jr.
2007-04-27T15:42:06Z

> One thing to try out (and dammit, I should make it the default now in
> 2.6.21) is to just make the dirty limits much lower. We've been talking
> about this for ages, I think this might be the right time to do it.

Could[/should] this stuff be changed from ratios to amounts? Or a quick
boot-time test to use a ratio if the memory is small and an amount (like
tax brackets, I would expect) if it's great?