Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932701AbXFSTHj (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:07:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764508AbXFSTHS (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:07:18 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:59902 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764352AbXFSTHQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:07:16 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:06:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: John Stoffel cc: Andrew Morton , tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Change in default vm_dirty_ratio In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1182201271.4883.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070618164711.9de1c38e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <18040.9056.755569.67029@stoffel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 572 Lines: 19 On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Yes. It should depend on: > - speed of the device(s) in question Btw, this one can be quite a big deal. Try connecting an iPod and syncing 8GB of data to it. Oops. So yes, it would be nice to have some per-device logic too. Tested patches would be very welcome ;) Linus - 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/