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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-04-27 09:10:47 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-04-27 09:10:47 -0700 |
| commit | 07db59bd6b0f279c31044cba6787344f63be87ea (patch) | |
| tree | 692c90c6cc45de055bc59b12c2c953d462319831 /mm/page-writeback.c | |
| parent | de46c33745f5e2ad594c72f2cf5f490861b16ce1 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-07db59bd6b0f279c31044cba6787344f63be87ea.tar.gz lwn-07db59bd6b0f279c31044cba6787344f63be87ea.zip | |
Change default dirty-writeback limits
Do this really early in the 2.6.22-rc series, so that we'll get
feedback. And don't change by half measures. Just cut the default
dirty limit to a quarter of what it was, and see if anybody even
notices.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index f469e3cd08e8..a794945fd194 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -67,12 +67,12 @@ static inline long sync_writeback_pages(void) /* * Start background writeback (via pdflush) at this percentage */ -int dirty_background_ratio = 10; +int dirty_background_ratio = 5; /* * The generator of dirty data starts writeback at this percentage */ -int vm_dirty_ratio = 40; +int vm_dirty_ratio = 10; /* * The interval between `kupdate'-style writebacks, in jiffies |