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DateThu, 21 Jun 2007 12:54:20 -0400
FromMark Lord <>
SubjectRe: Change in default vm_dirty_ratio
Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> What do we actually want the kernel to *do*?  Stated in terms of "when the
> dirty memory state is A, do B" and "when userspace does C, the kernel should
> do D".

When we have dirty pages awaiting write-out,
and the write-out device is completely idle,
then we should be writing them out.

That's the easy bit taken care of.  ;)
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