Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:52:51 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: VFS/VM over-runs. Was: Apparent strange disk behaviour in 6.0 Message-ID: <20050728115251.GA20091@beatrix.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <42E898A6.6010803@elischer.org> References: <42E88135.30603@elischer.org> <42E88F2B.5000108@elischer.org> <20050728082844.GW46538@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <42E898A6.6010803@elischer.org>
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On 2005-07-28 01:34, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote: > I wonder if there is some tunable that can be changed? or whether it's > just a bug.. > > I think that a write that finds no buffer space should first free old > unused buffers, and if there aren't any it should just wait. Where's > alan when you need him :-) Setting vm.swap_idle_enabled to 0 seemed to help when I observed similar problems in the past. I thought this was fixed months ago though. It may be a false impression I got by forgetting to re-enable it and check that this was indeed fixed.
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