Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161112AbVIPHik (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 03:38:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932433AbVIPHik (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 03:38:40 -0400 Received: from H190.C26.B96.tor.eicat.ca ([66.96.26.190]:59087 "EHLO moraine.clusterfs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932607AbVIPHii (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 03:38:38 -0400 From: Nikita Danilov MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17193.3830.498682.626783@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:04:38 +0400 To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] per-task-predictive-write-throttling-1 Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel In-Reply-To: <20050914220334.GF4966@opteron.random> References: <20050914220334.GF4966@opteron.random> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (patch 17) "chayote" (+CVS-20040321) XEmacs Lucid Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 655 Lines: 16 Andrea Arcangeli writes: > Hello, > > I wrote a patch to try avoiding making dirty about half the ram of the > computer when a single task is writing to disk (like during untarring or Why is that useful? Don't we want (in general) to cache as many dirty pages as possible in the hope that some of them will be re-dirtied (thus avoiding additional write) or truncated (avoiding write altogether)? Nikita. - 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/