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Subject: Re: Memory pressure handling with iSCSI
From: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:05:49 -0700
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On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 16:59 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> 
> > After KS & OLS discussions about memory pressure, I wanted to re-do
> > iSCSI testing with "dd"s to see if we are throttling writes.  
> 
> Could you also try with shared writable mmap, to see if that
> works ok or triggers a deadlock ?


I can, but lets finish addressing one issue at a time. Last time,
I changed too many things at the same time and got no where :(

Thanks,
Badari