VFS/VM over-runs. Was: Apparent strange disk behaviour in 6.0

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 02:52:51PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
+> On 2005-07-28 01:34, Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org> wrote:
+> > I wonder if there is some tunable that can be changed? or whether it's
+> > just a bug..
+> >
+> > I think that a write that finds no buffer space should first free old
+> > unused buffers, and if there aren't any it should just wait.  Where's
+> > alan when you need him :-)
+> 
+> Setting vm.swap_idle_enabled to 0 seemed to help when I observed similar
+> problems in the past.  I thought this was fixed months ago though.  It
+> may be a false impression I got by forgetting to re-enable it and check
+> that this was indeed fixed.

Setting vm.swap_idle_enabled to 0 doesn't work for me.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
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