A permanent solution to dirty bytes anywhere on the horizon?

[anon89812132]

A few discussions about the topic

The pernicious USB-stick stall problem

The main problem is related to matching the rate at which a process creates dirty memory to the rate at which that memory can be written to the underlying storage device. If a process is allowed to dirty a large amount of memory, the kernel will find itself committed to writing a chunk of data that might take minutes to transfer to persistent storage. All that data clogs up the I/O queues, possibly delaying other operations. And, as soon as somebody calls sync(), things stop until that entire q…

https://archived.forum.manjaro.org/t/decrease-dirty-bytes-for-more-reliable-usb-transfer/62513
and
https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/dirty_limits.html

@francois072

Why isn’t this a problem in Windows?

I personally never had such issue on Linux ever …