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Subject: Re: OOM killer and kernel cache reclamation rate limit in
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On 16/10/2014 12:08, Steven Hartland wrote:
> Unfortunately ZFS doesn't prevent new inflight writes until it
> hits zfs_dirty_data_max, so while what your suggesting will
> help, if the writes come in quick enough I would expect it to
> still be able to out run the pageout.

As I've mentioned, arc_memory_throttle() also plays role in limiting the dirty data.

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Andriy Gapon