VFS/VM over-runs. Was: Apparent strange disk behaviour in 6.0
Giorgos Keramidas
keramida at freebsd.org
Thu Jul 28 11:53:02 GMT 2005
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.
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