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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 01:43:28 -0700

> does
> 
> echo 40 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio
> echo 10 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio
> 
> fix it?

Yes, I was going to play with that, I'll report if anything
decisive happens.