Re: wierd behaviour...
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
28 Feb 1997 01:04:28 GMT
Followup to: <x7g1yhyclj.fsf@metal.iinet.net.au>
By author: "Michael O'Reilly" <michael@metal.iinet.net.au>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> There's a simple reason for all this. The Sysvinit does a sync() in
> it's main loop. So every time it gets a SIGCHLD from a process w/o a
> parent dying, it does a sync(), which flushes all the dirty buffers
> (including atime mods), and voilo! Tons of disk writing.
>
WHY???
-hpa
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