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

[Julian Elischer]

This is an absolute show stopper for 6.0


Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:

>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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