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  1. Bug #620074
  2. Comment #380

Comment 380 for bug 620074

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In , kernel (kernel-linux-kernel-bugs) wrote :

(In reply to comment #365)
> Isn't the second patch just adjusting things which can be adjusted in proc?
>
> echo 10 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio
> echo 40 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio
>
> Someone want to do some tests after adjusting those two?

We already determined months ago that tuning those knobs way down was a way to minimize the problem. (See comment #263 and comment #292 for test results.) It's not a solution, though; it just skirts around the real issue.