Relation between nr_dirty and nr_inactive

Hi, I am running older kernel (CentOS 2.6.9-34 SMP) on 32 bit arch. Some of my systems got hung, while trying to write some data to disk. All those systems exhibit similar pattern where during this time, /proc/meminfo suggesting 'Inactive' < 'Dirty'. All of machines have 2G of physical memory and

Relation between nr_dirty and nr_inactive

Hi, I am running older kernel (CentOS 2.6.9-34 SMP) on 32 bit arch. Some of my systems got hung, while trying to write some data to disk. All those systems exhibit similar pattern where during this time, /proc/meminfo suggesting 'Inactive' 'Dirty'. All of machines have 2G of physical memory and