[ovirt-devel] VDSM changes Linux memory dirty ratios - why?

[Sven Kieske]

On 30/11/16 08:48, Martin Polednik wrote:
> It's not really irrelevant, the host still uses disk cache. Anyway,
> there is BZ[1] with a presentation[2] that (imho reasonably) states:
> 
> "Reduce dirty page limits in KVM host to allow
> direct I/O writer VMs to compete successfully
> with buffered writer processes for storage
> access"
> 
> I wonder why virtual-host tuned profile doesn't contain these values:
> 
> $ grep vm.dirty /usr/lib/tuned/virtual-host/tuned.conf
> vm.dirty_background_ratio = 5
> 
> [1]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=740887
> [2]http://perf1.lab.bos.redhat.com/bengland/laptop/rhev/rhev-vm-rsptime.pdf

Could you share [2] with the wider community? This would be awesome!
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