Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964858AbWBNAuH (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:50:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964886AbWBNAuG (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:50:06 -0500 Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:57823 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964858AbWBNAuF (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:50:05 -0500 Message-ID: <43F1293A.9050002@rtr.ca> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:50:02 -0500 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 SeaMonkey/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton Cc: Johannes Stezenbach , dgc@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: dirty pages (Was: Re: [PATCH] Prevent large file writeback starvation) References: <20060206040027.GI43335175@melbourne.sgi.com> <20060205202733.48a02dbe.akpm@osdl.org> <43E75ED4.809@rtr.ca> <43E75FB6.2040203@rtr.ca> <20060206121133.4ef589af.akpm@osdl.org> <20060213135925.GA6173@linuxtv.org> <20060213120847.79215432.akpm@osdl.org> <43F11BA3.8060904@rtr.ca> In-Reply-To: <43F11BA3.8060904@rtr.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1268 Lines: 32 Mark Lord wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: >> Johannes Stezenbach wrote: >>> On Mon, Feb 06, 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: ... >>> Anyway, I temporarily deinstalled vmware (deleted the kernel >>> modules and rebooted; kernel is still tainted because of madwifi >>> if that matters). >>> The behaviour I see with vmware (long 'sync' time) doesn't seem >>> to happen without it so far ... > > Mmm.. Okay, all of my machines normally have VMWare-WS installed on them, > so that might just be the culprit. ... > Mmm.. so the intent is to affect only VMWare itself, not the rest of the > system while VMWare is dormant. I guess it's time to disable loading of > the VMWare modules and reboot. Bye bye uptime! Maybe I'll install > 2.6.16-rc3 while I'm at it. > > I'll follow-up with results in an hour or two. Okay, results are non-conclusive, because 2.6.16-rc3-git1 breaks VMWare; the vmmon module no longer compiles. Unstable kernel non-API issue again. So I'm back on 2.6.15 until that gets fixed. Cheers - 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/