Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 21:14:15 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Cc: colpatch@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Make balance_dirty_pages zone aware (1/2)
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"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> wrote:
>
> "dd if=/dev/zero of=foo" would trigger it, I'd think. Watching the IO
>  rate, it should go wierd after ram is full (on a 3 or more node system, 
>  so there's < 40% of RAM for each node).

We should just prod kswapd into cleansing the relevant zone(s) and go do
allocation from the next one.

> Yeah, I know you're going to give me crap for not actually trying it 

How much would you like?

(Wanders off, wondering how to fix a problem which cannot be
demonstrated).
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