From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 21:14:15 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [RFC] Make balance_dirty_pages zone aware (1/2) Message-Id: <20031124211415.501ab952.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1070800000.1069736303@[10.10.2.4]> References: <3FBEB27D.5010007@us.ibm.com> <20031123143627.1754a3f0.akpm@osdl.org> <1034580000.1069688202@[10.10.2.4]> <20031124100043.5416ed4c.akpm@osdl.org> <39670000.1069719009@flay> <20031124170506.4024bb30.akpm@osdl.org> <1070800000.1069736303@[10.10.2.4]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: colpatch@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: "Martin J. Bligh" wrote: > > "dd if=/dev/zero of=foo" would trigger it, I'd think. Watching the IO > rate, it should go wierd after ram is full (on a 3 or more node system, > so there's < 40% of RAM for each node). We should just prod kswapd into cleansing the relevant zone(s) and go do allocation from the next one. > Yeah, I know you're going to give me crap for not actually trying it How much would you like? (Wanders off, wondering how to fix a problem which cannot be demonstrated). -- 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: aart@kvack.org