Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:30:06 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation) |
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On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Matthias Andree wrote: > > Another thing that is rather unpleasant (haven't yet tried fiddling with > the dirty limits) is UDF to DVD-RAM - try rsyncing /home to a DVD-RAM, > that's going to leave you with tons of dirty buffers that clear slowly > -- "watch -n 1 grep -i dirty /proc/meminfo" is boring, but elucidating...
Now *this* is actually really really nasty.
There are worse examples. Try connecting some flash disk over USB-1, and untar to it. Ugh.
I'd love to have some per-device dirty limit, but it's harder than it should be.
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