Re: 6.0 VFS/VM over-runs. Was: Apparent strange disk behaviour in 6.0

From: Julian Elischer (julian_at_elischer.org)
Date: 07/28/05

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To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>

    This is an absolute show stopper for 6.0

    Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:

    >On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 02:52:51PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
    >+> On 2005-07-28 01:34, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> 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 :-)
    >+>
    >+> 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.
    >
    >
    >
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