Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965104AbVIIJHT (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Sep 2005 05:07:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965106AbVIIJHT (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Sep 2005 05:07:19 -0400 Received: from ppp59-167.lns1.cbr1.internode.on.net ([59.167.59.167]:21521 "EHLO triton.bird.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965104AbVIIJHR (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Sep 2005 05:07:17 -0400 Message-ID: <432151B0.7030603@acquerra.com.au> Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 19:11:12 +1000 From: Anthony Wesley Reply-To: awesley@acquerra.com.au User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.13 buffer strangeness Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 745 Lines: 18 Thanks David, but if you read my original post in full you'll see that I've tried that, and while I can start the write out sooner by lowering /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio , it makes no difference to the results that I am getting. I still seem to run out of steam after only 50 seconds where it should take about 3 minutes. regards, Anthony -- Anthony Wesley Director and IT/Network Consultant Smart Networks Pty Ltd Acquerra Pty Ltd Anthony.Wesley@acquerra.com.au Phone: (02) 62595404 or 0419409836 - 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/