On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 08:13:27PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: [...] > One more serious problem is, a busy writer could also drain all the > dirty pages and make (nr_writeback == dirty_limit+1MB). In that case, > I suspect the light-load sdb writer still have good chance to > make progress(need confirmation). Well it seems to be a really tricky issue without knowing the per-bdi numbers. Maybe we could just encourage users to upgrade to 2.6.24... _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm