Re: Memory pressure handling with iSCSI

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Jul 26 2005 - 17:10:09 EST


Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 14:24 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Nope. Dirty is still very high..

That's a relief in a way. Can you please try decreasing the number of
filesystems now?

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