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

On 2005-07-28 01:34, Julian Elischer <julian_at_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.