Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:52:37 -0400 (EDT) | | From | Rik van Riel <> | | Subject | Re: Question on forcing cache data to write out |
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On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Andrew Morton wrote: > Phy Prabab <phyprabab@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > quickly, but once the system memory becomes filled, > > mostly held in "cache", then my NFS performance drops.
> Setting dirty_background_ratio lower might smooth things out.
Hmmm, I wonder if the "system gets slower" thing could be measured somehow (IO request queue filling up?) and used as a way to self-tune pdflush a bit ?
I'll take a look ...
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