| To: | Alexander Bergolth <leo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: pdflush not flushing all dirty_expire_centisecs |
| From: | David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:24:19 +1100 |
| Cc: | Linux xfs mailing list <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx> |
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On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 04:06:44PM +0100, Alexander Bergolth wrote: > Hi! > > On my FC3 systems, I'm experiencing the problem that dirty buffers are > not periodically flushed under certain conditions. I don't think this is an XFS problem. Dirty page flushing is broken generically in certain ways. For example: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113919849421679&w=2 > I don't think that the problem is XFS-specific as it does also happen on > boxes with ext3 filesystems but maybe anyone has a hint... I'd start by upgrading to the latest stable kernel, and if the problem still exists, reporting it to LKML. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner R&D Software Enginner SGI Australian Software Group |
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