On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:

William Lee Irwin III wrote:

quoted

On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 07:18:34PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

quoted

Of course, that change means that we wouldn't be able to throttle
page allocators against IO any more, and we'd have to do something
smarter.  What a shame ;)

This is actually necessary IMHO. Some testing I've been able to do seems
to reveal the current throttling mechanism as inadequate.

I don't think so.  If you're referring to the situation where your
4G machine had 3.5G dirty pages without triggering writeback.

That's not a generic problem.

But it is, mmap() and anonymous memory don't trigger writeback.

regards,

Rik
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