Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Nov 2003 21:14:15 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Make balance_dirty_pages zone aware (1/2) |
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"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> wrote: > > "dd if=/dev/zero of=foo" would trigger it, I'd think. Watching the IO > rate, it should go wierd after ram is full (on a 3 or more node system, > so there's < 40% of RAM for each node).
We should just prod kswapd into cleansing the relevant zone(s) and go do allocation from the next one.
> Yeah, I know you're going to give me crap for not actually trying it
How much would you like?
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