Can 'vm.dirty_ratio' to set to less than 'vm.dirty_background_ratio'?

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Issue

Can vm.dirty_ratio to set to less than vm.dirty_background_ratio? In testing this, dirty memory was seen to consistently peak at a point which does not even meet the lower vm.dirty_ratio threshold.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
  • RHEL 6

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