Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/9] deadlock prevention core

Daniel Phillips wrote:

Andrew Morton wrote:

Processes which are dirtying those pages throttle at
/proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio% of memory dirty.  So it is not possible to "fill"
memory with dirty pages.  If the amount of physical memory which is dirty
exceeds 40%: bug.

So we make 400 MB of a 1 GB system unavailable for write caching just to
get around the network receive starvation issue?

Excuse me, 600 MB of a 1 GB system :-/

Regards,

Daniel
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