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  1. Bug #620074
  2. Comment #490

Comment 490 for bug 620074

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

According to http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt

"Note: the minimum value allowed for dirty_bytes is two pages (in bytes); any
value lower than this limit will be ignored and the old configuration will be
retained."

Better make that 8192

Also you could try lowering /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio