Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: [partial fix?] Re: Badblocks and no free pages... | Date | Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:26 +0100 (BST) |
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> wakeup_bdflush(1); > > should say to the writing process "hold on a bit before you supply me > a new wave of buffers, as the write pipeline is already full enough > for efficient operation, and I'm already servicing it as fast as I can".
One obvious solution for 2.1.x is to keep a per device highwater mark. This will also mean we can deal nicely with the "wrote 1.4Mb to fd0 and it'll be filling the disk cache for a while now.."
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