Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 2 Jan 2005 18:21:30 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][1/2] adjust dirty threshold for lowmem-only mappings |
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On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 11:53:09AM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > 2.6 does not ignore highmem when calculating the dirty memory > limits, which is causing problems. That's why I sent in the > patch in the first place ;)
Ok great, things are clear now, I apparently missed your original patch in the noise last time I checked this thread and I only focused on Andrew's proposed fix, and the two patches are both good and orthogonal with each other. I agree your patch is needed and it should fix the blkdev write on > 1G. Without it the VM is guaranteed to run oom in your setup, since whatever we writeback, it can be made dirty again before we can attempt to free it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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