Subject: Re: dirty buffers growing ?
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/26/2001 20:10:54
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:09:45PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> Look at this strange console output on reboot of my Ultra1:
> syncing disks... 37 37 36 30 24 20 17 33 29 20 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 giving up
> 
> How can the number of dirty buffers grow ?

With softdeps, the number of dirty buffers can grow temporarily
during a sync (although it seems to grow quite a bit in this case).

- Frank

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Frank van der Linden                           fvdl@wasabisystems.com
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