Re: Question on forcing cache data to write out

[Rik van Riel]

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Phy Prabab <phyprabab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > quickly, but once the system memory becomes filled,
> > mostly held in "cache", then my NFS performance drops.

> Setting dirty_background_ratio lower might smooth things out.

Hmmm, I wonder if the "system gets slower" thing could be
measured somehow (IO request queue filling up?) and used
as a way to self-tune pdflush a bit ?

I'll take a look ...

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