Re: Memory pressure handling with iSCSI

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Jul 26 2005 - 16:29:33 EST


Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ext2 is incredibly better. Machine is very responsive.
>

OK. Please, always monitor and send /proc/meminfo. I assume that the
dirty-memory clamping is working OK with ext2 and that perhaps it'll work
OK with ext3/data=writeback.

All very odd. I wonder how to reproduce this. Maybe 50 ext3 filesystems
on regular old scsi will do it?
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