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From: Leroy van Logchem <leroy.vanlogchem@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Understanding I/O behaviour
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 13:23:47 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20070707T151648-630@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 197707.68164.qm@web32604.mail.mud.yahoo.com

>  I am just now playing with dirty_ratio. Anybody knows what the lower
> limit is? "0" seems acceptabel, but does it actually imply "write out
> immediatelly"?

You should "watch -n 1 cat /proc/meminfo" and monitor the Dirty and Writeback
while lowering the amount the kernel may keep dirty. The solution we are hoping
for is are the per device dirty throttling -v7 patches.

-- 
Leroy


  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-07 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.gAvf+r9fiPwNwNVqahYy5u1/Is0@ifi.uio.no>
2007-07-05 23:47 ` Understanding I/O behaviour Robert Hancock
2007-07-05 23:53   ` Jesper Juhl
2007-07-06  7:54     ` Martin Knoblauch
2007-07-06 10:15       ` Brice Figureau
2007-07-06 10:11   ` Martin Knoblauch
2007-07-07 13:23     ` Leroy van Logchem [this message]
2007-07-06 14:25 Daniel J Blueman
2007-07-06 15:17 ` Martin Knoblauch
2007-07-06 15:44   ` Daniel J Blueman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-07-06 12:44 Martin Knoblauch
2007-07-06 11:03 Martin Knoblauch
2007-07-06 10:18 Martin Knoblauch
2007-07-05 15:40 Martin Knoblauch
2007-07-05 18:15 ` Andrew Lyon
2007-07-05 20:22 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-07-08 21:28   ` Jesper Juhl
2007-07-09  8:47     ` Martin Knoblauch

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