Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Mar 1998 17:01:44 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Priorities of kswapd & bdflush |
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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...
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