Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Avoid the use of congestion_wait under zone pressure

[Rik van Riel]

On 04/21/2010 12:23 AM, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:

> IMHO it is fine to prevent that nightly backup job from not being
> finished when the user arrives at morning because we didn't give him
> some more cache

How on earth would a backup job benefit from cache?

It only accesses each bit of data once, so caching the
to-be-backed-up data is a waste of memory.
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