Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:50:02 -0500 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: dirty pages (Was: Re: [PATCH] Prevent large file writeback starvation) |
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Mark Lord wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: >> Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org> wrote: >>> On Mon, Feb 06, 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: ... >>> Anyway, I temporarily deinstalled vmware (deleted the kernel >>> modules and rebooted; kernel is still tainted because of madwifi >>> if that matters). >>> The behaviour I see with vmware (long 'sync' time) doesn't seem >>> to happen without it so far ... > > Mmm.. Okay, all of my machines normally have VMWare-WS installed on them, > so that might just be the culprit. ... > Mmm.. so the intent is to affect only VMWare itself, not the rest of the > system while VMWare is dormant. I guess it's time to disable loading of > the VMWare modules and reboot. Bye bye uptime! Maybe I'll install > 2.6.16-rc3 while I'm at it. > > I'll follow-up with results in an hour or two.
Okay, results are non-conclusive, because 2.6.16-rc3-git1 breaks VMWare; the vmmon module no longer compiles. Unstable kernel non-API issue again.
So I'm back on 2.6.15 until that gets fixed.
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