On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 14:24 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

Badari Pulavarty [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

ext2 is incredibly better. Machine is very responsive. 

OK.  Please, always monitor and send /proc/meminfo.  I assume that the
dirty-memory clamping is working OK with ext2 and that perhaps it'll work
OK with ext3/data=writeback.

Nope. Dirty is still very high..

# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:      7143628 kB
MemFree:         33248 kB
Buffers:          8368 kB
Cached:        6789932 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:          51316 kB
Inactive:      6769144 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:      7143628 kB
LowFree:         33248 kB
SwapTotal:     1048784 kB
SwapFree:      1048780 kB
Dirty:         6605704 kB
Writeback:      168452 kB
Mapped:          49724 kB
Slab:           252200 kB
CommitLimit:   4620596 kB
Committed_AS:   163524 kB
PageTables:       2284 kB
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed:      9888 kB
VmallocChunk: 34359728447 kB
HugePages_Total:     0
HugePages_Free:      0
Hugepagesize:     2048 kB

Thanks,
Badari

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