Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Apr 2004 01:13:29 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Question on forcing cache data to write out |
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Phy Prabab <phyprabab@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Sirs, > > I am interested in understanding how tot tune the 2.6 > kernel such that I can get the WM to write out data > that is held within the "cache". > > My situtation is that I have a NFS file server that > gets data in bursts. The first couple of burst move > quickly, but once the system memory becomes filled, > mostly held in "cache", then my NFS performance drops. > The issue here is how to get the VM to write out the > data held within the cache when times are slow (which > amounts to 90% of the time)? I have played a little > bit with the /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio, etc with out > much help.
Setting dirty_background_ratio lower might smooth things out. - 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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