Messages in this thread | | | From | Nikita Danilov <> | Date | Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:04:38 +0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] per-task-predictive-write-throttling-1 |
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Andrea Arcangeli writes: > Hello, > > I wrote a patch to try avoiding making dirty about half the ram of the > computer when a single task is writing to disk (like during untarring or
Why is that useful? Don't we want (in general) to cache as many dirty pages as possible in the hope that some of them will be re-dirtied (thus avoiding additional write) or truncated (avoiding write altogether)?
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