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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 22:46:26 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Unresponiveness of 2.4.16
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:

> umm...  What I said.
>
> balance_dirty_state() is allowing writes to flood the machine
> with locked buffers.

Saw your patch, it's neat.  I'm going to try it
first thing in the morning...

Rik
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