Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:24:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:24:43 -0400 Received: from 2-225.ctame701-1.telepar.net.br ([200.193.160.225]:52374 "EHLO 2-225.ctame701-1.telepar.net.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:24:41 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 15:29:37 -0300 (BRT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@imladris.surriel.com To: "Justin T. Gibbs" cc: Jens Axboe , Matthew Jacob , "Pedro M. Rodrigues" , Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer , , Subject: Re: Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers while doing file transfers In-Reply-To: <2483176224.1033147178@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 825 Lines: 25 On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > FreeBSD has several algorithms in its VM to prevent a single process > from holding onto too many dirty buffers. FreeBSD, Solaris, True64, > even WindowsNT have effective algorithms for sanely retiring dirty > buffers without saturating the system. I guess those must be bad for dbench, bonnie or other critical server applications ;) *runs like hell* Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ Spamtraps of the month: september@surriel.com trac@trac.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/