From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:24:10 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Memory pressure handling with iSCSI Message-Id: <20050726142410.4ff2e56a.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1122412301.6433.54.camel@dyn9047017102.beaverton.ibm.com> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Badari Pulavarty Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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. All very odd. I wonder how to reproduce this. Maybe 50 ext3 filesystems on regular old scsi will do it? -- 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