linux-kernel - Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation)

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.0.98.0704271139190.29118@sigma.j-a-k-j.com>
Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:41:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"John Anthony Kazos Jr." <jakj@...-k-j.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS
 is under heavy write load (massive starvation)

> One thing to try out (and dammit, I should make it the default now in 
> 2.6.21) is to just make the dirty limits much lower. We've been talking 
> about this for ages, I think this might be the right time to do it.

Could[/should] this stuff be changed from ratios to amounts? Or a quick 
boot-time test to use a ratio if the memory is small and an amount (like 
tax brackets, I would expect) if it's great?
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