On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:49:01 +0100
Miklos Szeredi [off-list ref] wrote:

Penalizing heavy dirtiers with 1/8-th the total dirty limit might be rather
excessive on large memory machines. Use sqrt to scale it sub-linearly.

Then again, it might not be.

I'll skip this one.  Please resend if/when it is proven to be a net benefit
across a broad range of workloads.  And stuff like that.

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