| Summary: | Incorrect values in /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centises and dirty_expire_centisecs [rhel-5.7.z] | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Phillip Lougher <plougher> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Petr Beňas <pbenas> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | urgent | ||
| Version: | 5.6 | CC: | cww, dhoward, jwest, lwoodman, pbenas, pm-eus, pstehlik, qcai, rruban, vincent |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | ZStream |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | kernel-2.6.18-274.5.1.el5 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: |
When setting the value in the /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs file via echo, the actual saved value was always one less than the given value (for example, setting 500 resulted in 499 being set). This update fixes this off-by-one error, and values in /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs are now correctly set.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-10-20 17:31:20 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Bug Depends On: | 691087 | ||
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Description
RHEL Program Management
2011-08-26 12:37:56 UTC
in kernel-2.6.18-274.5.1.el5 linux-2.6-mm-fix-incorrect-off-by-one-centisec-dirty-values.patch Reproduced in 2.6.18-274.4.1.el5 and verified in 2.6.18-274.5.1.el5. Thanks for all the hard work on this issue, guys. Best regards from France, Vincent Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1386.html
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When setting the value in the /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs file via echo, the actual saved value was always one less than the given value (for example, setting 500 resulted in 499 being set). This update fixes this off-by-one error, and values in /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs are now correctly set.
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