On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 14:24 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > ext2 is incredibly better. Machine is very responsive. > > > > OK. Please, always monitor and send /proc/meminfo. I assume that the > dirty-memory clamping is working OK with ext2 and that perhaps it'll work > OK with ext3/data=writeback.
Nope. Dirty is still very high.. # cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 7143628 kB MemFree: 33248 kB Buffers: 8368 kB Cached: 6789932 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 51316 kB Inactive: 6769144 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 7143628 kB LowFree: 33248 kB SwapTotal: 1048784 kB SwapFree: 1048780 kB Dirty: 6605704 kB Writeback: 168452 kB Mapped: 49724 kB Slab: 252200 kB CommitLimit: 4620596 kB Committed_AS: 163524 kB PageTables: 2284 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 9888 kB VmallocChunk: 34359728447 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB Thanks, Badari - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/