> 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
