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Date:      13 Oct 2001 00:52:07 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vnode_pager.c
Message-ID:  <xzpelo8ii94.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <200110121817.f9CIHYU38714@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200110121817.f9CIHYU38714@freefall.freebsd.org>

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Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>   Log:
>   Finally fix the VM bug where a file whos EOF occurs in the middle of a page
>   would sometimes prevent a dirty page from being cleaned, even when synced,
>   resulting in the dirty page being re-flushed to disk every 30-60 seconds or
>   so, forever.

Does this explain why my development box (with FreeBSD, NetBSD and
XFree86 repo mirrors and about three full FreeBSD source trees checked
out) has a shitload of FFS nodes and spends 8% of its time running
syncer, resulting in crappy interrupt latency?  Or is that a different
bug?  If this is the one, I'm immensely grateful that you fixed it.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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