Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:13:52 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/6] mm: bdi: tweak task dirty penalty |
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:49:01 +0100 Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
> Penalizing heavy dirtiers with 1/8-th the total dirty limit might be rather > excessive on large memory machines. Use sqrt to scale it sub-linearly.
Then again, it might not be.
I'll skip this one. Please resend if/when it is proven to be a net benefit across a broad range of workloads. And stuff like that.
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