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SubjectRe: Priorities of kswapd & bdflush
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Pavel Machek wrote:

> kswapd has realtime priority. Well, I do not like it (it likes to loop
> forever), but it is probably neccessary.

In fact, it should have a higher realtime priority than it
has now...
The loops are easily avoided by:
- correct coding (usually good enough to avoid loops :)
- reading the docs before cat'ing random values to /proc/sys/vm/*

> Anyway, at least when emergency sync is requested, bdflush should get
> realtime priority. As I said, it might be good thing (tm) for bdflush
> to have realtime priority all the time...
>
> What do you think?

I think you're right that bdflush should have a higher priority
than kswapd...

Rik.
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