Re: [patch] adjustments to dirty memory thresholds

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Sat, 31 Aug 2002 18:37:44 -0700


On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 07:52:56PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Eeeks indeed. But the main variables really are memory size,
> IO bandwidth and workload. That's manageable.
> The traditional toss-it-in-and-see-who-complains approach will
> catch the weird corner cases but it's slow turnaround. I guess
> as long as we know what the code is trying to do then it should be
> fairly straightforward to verify that it's doing it.

Okay, not sure which in the thread to respond to, but since I can't
find a public statement to this effect, in my testing, all 3 OOM
patches behave identically.

Cheers,
Bill
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