From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 28 14:17:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5419F16A4D6; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:17:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pjd@darkness.comp.waw.pl) Received: from darkness.comp.waw.pl (darkness.comp.waw.pl [195.117.238.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A73A43ED6; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:56:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pjd@darkness.comp.waw.pl) Received: by darkness.comp.waw.pl (Postfix, from userid 1009) id 7A7F0ACBD2; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:56:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:56:13 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek To: Giorgos Keramidas Message-ID: <20050728135613.GD46538@darkness.comp.waw.pl> References: <42E88135.30603@elischer.org> <42E88F2B.5000108@elischer.org> <20050728082844.GW46538@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <42E898A6.6010803@elischer.org> <20050728115251.GA20091@beatrix.daedalusnetworks.priv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0awnVF2sFfgjpFeR" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050728115251.GA20091@beatrix.daedalusnetworks.priv> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-PGP-Key-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/pjd.asc X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 i386 Cc: FreeBSD Current , Julian Elischer Subject: Re: VFS/VM over-runs. Was: Apparent strange disk behaviour in 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:17:43 -0000 --0awnVF2sFfgjpFeR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 02:52:51PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: +> On 2005-07-28 01:34, Julian Elischer 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 :-) +>=20 +> 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. Setting vm.swap_idle_enabled to 0 doesn't work for me. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --0awnVF2sFfgjpFeR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC6OP9ForvXbEpPzQRAqmlAKDOZXL4tlydBcxKJMoDitEUpiWn8QCeJZNd Rqd/g2XKU1YJZ+41K28jiNI= =Y0OX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0awnVF2sFfgjpFeR--