Re: 2.2.2 two major problems

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Thu, 4 Mar 1999 00:25:08 +0100 (CET)


On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

>Ok they've been working for pretty much everyone. Congratulations on finding
>a torture test. Now the question is what the pattern is. Fast CPU's probably.

I think that replacing the if (toomany) wakeup_bdflush(0) with
wakeup_bdflush(1) would have fixed it everywhere. But we instead added
heuristics and crap to the buffer.c code. I would really like to know if
somebody every changed bdf_prm.pct_dirt via sysctl, we never suggest
people to change it when we have a bugreport like this...

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