From: Rik van Riel <riel@humbolt.geo.uu.nl>
To: Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: bdflush defaults bugreport
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 09:58:56 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9909050953540.247-100000@mirkwood.dummy.home> (raw)
Hi,
yesterday evening I've seen a 32MB machine failing to install because
mke2fs was killed due to memory shortage -- memory shortage due to
a too large number of dirty blocks (max 40% by default).
Lowering the number to 1% solved all problems, so I guess we should
lower the number in the kernel to something like 10%, which should
be _more_ than enough since the page cache can now be dirty too...
Btw, the problem happened on a 2.2.10 machine, so I guess we should
lower the 2.2 default as well (to 15%? 20%?).
regards,
Rik
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next reply other threads:[~1999-09-05 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-05 7:58 Rik van Riel [this message]
1999-09-05 8:55 ` [2.2.12 PATCH] " Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1999-09-13 18:06 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-09-13 18:02 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.3.96.990913140636.29128A-100000@kanga.kvack.org>
1999-09-13 20:24 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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