Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Dec 2008 07:40:41 -0600 (CST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vmscan: bail out of page reclaim after swap_cluster_max pages |
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On Sat, 29 Nov 2008, Rik van Riel wrote:
> When using mmap or memory hogs writing to swap, applications > will not be throttled by the "too many dirty pages" logic, > but may instead end up being throttled in the direct reclaim > path instead.
The too many dirty pages logic will throttle applications dirtying mmapped pages these days.
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