> I.e. 12309 bug is back. It's obscure and presumably fixed (at least four > times fixed) bug that happens with relatively slow filesystem (be it > SSD/HDD/NFS or whatever) and a large amount of free RAM. I first > encountered the thing back in 2.6.18 days, where it was presumably > implemented (as in - nobody complained before ;).
Thank you, Reco and Abdullah, for providing some very helpful information. I'll retest with the kernel parameters. I went over to https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12309 and it seems they've closed the bug and/or given up on this. Is there any value in continuing to whine about this problem? I mean, it's not like large-capacity RAM is going away.
