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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> From watching /proc/meminfo it was clear that there were only 1MB or
>> 2MB under writeback, but it also showed that the dirty memory thresholds
>> were being exceeded.

On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 02:19:46AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Ah, that may well happen with loop.  Mark a page clean, "submit"
> it and that just goes and marks a different page dirty.
> If you could please share the setup details (amount of memory,
> file sizes, workload etc) I'll have a look.

The box is an IBM Thinkpad with 256MB of RAM and a 900MHz P-III cpu.
No-name IDE disk (believe me, I made sure everything there was expendable), 
workload being dbench 16 on reiserfs over loop with a 256MB reiserfs loop
file. I'm actually not entirely sure what the filesizes were as dbench
didn't report that.


Cheers,
Bill
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