On 20.05.2010, Larry Woodman wrote: > Increasing the dirty_ratio to 40% will regain the performance loss seen > in several benchmarks. Whats everyone think about this??? These are tuneable via sysctl. What I have in my /etc/sysctl.conf is vm.dirty_ratio = 4 vm.dirty_background_ratio = 2 This writes back the data more often and frequently, thus preventing the system from long stalls. Works at least for me. AMD Quadcore, 8 GB RAM. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>