Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:54:15 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Page writeback broken after resume: wb_timer lost |
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On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:38:57 -0400 Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:
> > I just gave it a try here. With or without a suspend/resume cycle after > > boot, > > the "sync" time is much quicker. But the Dirty count in /proc/meminfo > > still shows very huge (eg. 600MB) values that never really get smaller > > until I type "sync". But that subsequent "sync" only takes a couple > > of seconds now, rather than 10-20 seconds like before. > .. > > Yup, behaviour is *definitely* much better now. I'm not sure why > the /proc/meminfo "Dirty" count lags behind reality, but the disk > is being kept much more up-to-date than without this patch.
Are you able to come up with a foolproof set of steps which would allow the laggy-dirtiness to be reproduced by yours truly? - 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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