On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:49:01 +0100 Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. - 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