From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.106]) by e35.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j6QLjDhn493868 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:45:13 -0400 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VERS6.7) with ESMTP id j6QLjFuN191782 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:45:15 -0600 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j6QLjCUm025980 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:45:12 -0600 Subject: Re: Memory pressure handling with iSCSI From: Badari Pulavarty In-Reply-To: <20050726142410.4ff2e56a.akpm@osdl.org> References: <1122399331.6433.29.camel@dyn9047017102.beaverton.ibm.com> <20050726111110.6b9db241.akpm@osdl.org> <1122403152.6433.39.camel@dyn9047017102.beaverton.ibm.com> <20050726114824.136d3dad.akpm@osdl.org> <20050726121250.0ba7d744.akpm@osdl.org> <1122412301.6433.54.camel@dyn9047017102.beaverton.ibm.com> <20050726142410.4ff2e56a.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:45:00 -0700 Message-Id: <1122414300.6433.57.camel@dyn9047017102.beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: lkml , linux-mm List-ID: On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 14:24 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > > > 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org