Re: Comment on patch to remove nr_async_pages limitA

2001-06-05 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Tuesday 05 June 2001 23:00, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Benjamin C.R. LaHaise wrote: > > Swapping early causes many more problems than swapping late as > > extraneous seeks to the swap partiton severely degrade performance. > > That is not the case here at the spot in the perfor

Re: Comment on patch to remove nr_async_pages limitA

2001-06-05 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Benjamin C.R. LaHaise wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > Yes. If we start writing out sooner, we aren't stuck with pushing a > > ton of IO all at once and can use prudent limits. Not only because of > > potential allocation problems, but because our sit