Tasks stalling in balance_dirty_pages() on RHEL6

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Issue

  • System may encounter delays, blocked tasks or general poor performance when exceeding the dirty page limits due to tasks getting stuck in the dirty page throttle.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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