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bdflush defaults bugreport
Hi,
yesterday evening I've seen a 32MB machine failing to install because
mke2fs was killed due to memory shortage -- memory shortage due to
a too large number of dirty blocks (max 40% by default).
Lowering the number to 1% solved all problems, so I guess we should
lower the number in the kernel to something like 10%, which should
be _more_ than enough since the page cache can now be dirty too...
Btw, the problem happened on a 2.2.10 machine, so I guess we should
lower the 2.2 default as well (to 15%? 20%?).
regards,
Rik
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