On Tuesday August 15, rheflin@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I have noticed on SLES kernels that when the dirty_*ratios turned down it > still uses alot more memory than it should work writeback buffers, it makes > me think that with the default setting of 40% that it for some reason > may be using all of memory and deadlocking. It does not seem like an > NFS only issue, as I believe I have duplicated it with a fast lock > setup. We seem to have a little patch in SuSE kernels that might be making the problem worse .... though I presume it was introduced for a reason. I haven't managed to track what that reason was yet. What is "a fast lock setup"?? I don't understand. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
