Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Dec 2006 21:13:07 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: la la la la ... swappiness |
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On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 17:56:30 -0600 > "Aucoin" <Aucoin@Houston.RR.com> wrote: > > > I hope I haven't muddied things up even more but basically what we want to > > do is find a way to limit the number of cached pages for disk I/O on the OS > > filesystem, even if it drastically slows down the untar and verify process > > because the disk I/O we really care about is not on any of the OS > > partitions. > > Try mounting that fs with `-o sync'.
Wouldn't it be much nicer to just lower the dirty-page limit?
echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio
or something. Which we already discussed in another thread and almost already decided we should lower the values for big-mem machines..
Hmm?
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