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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 11:16:04 -0500
From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: David Ford <david@linux.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: VM brokenness, possibly related to reiserfs
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On Wednesday, January 31, 2001 11:02:46 PM -0800 David Ford <david@linux.com> wrote:

> (Chris, changing JOURNAL_MAX_BATCH from 900 to 100 didn't affect
> anything).
> 
> Ok, having approached this slightly more intelligently here are [better]
> results.
> 
> The dumps are large so they are located at http://stuph.org/VM/.  Here's
> the story.  

Sorry, can't seem to resolve stuph.org.  What is kreiserfsd doing during when the system is waiting for more ram?  With JOURNAL_MAX_BATCH set to 100, kreiserfsd will end up responsible for sending log blocks/metadata to disk and freeing the pinned buffers.

-chris

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