if [ `pidof krflushd` ]
then
kill -KILL `pidof "update (bdflush)"`
fi
[0] (unless, of course, you use it for things like spinning down)
-- ____/| Ragnar Hojland (ragnar@lightside.ddns.org) Fingerprint 94C4B \ o.O| 2F0D27DE025BE2302C =(_)= "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer for 104B78C56 B72F0822 U chaos and madness await thee at its end." hkp://keys.pgp.com
--- linux-2.1.126/fs/buffer.c.O Wed Oct 28 18:46:21 1998 +++ linux-2.1.126/fs/buffer.c Wed Oct 28 19:35:52 1998 @@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ static char buffersize_index[65] = #define MAX_UNUSED_BUFFERS NR_RESERVED+20 /* don't ever have more than this number of unused buffer heads */ +extern int regular_sync_scheduled; + /* * Hash table mask.. */ @@ -1944,7 +1946,7 @@ int bdflush(void * unused) current->session = 1; current->pgrp = 1; - sprintf(current->comm, "kflushd"); + sprintf(current->comm, "krflushd"); bdflush_tsk = current; /* @@ -1956,11 +1958,19 @@ int bdflush(void * unused) for (;;) { #ifdef DEBUG - printk("bdflush() activated..."); + printk("bdflush() activated...\n"); #endif CHECK_EMERGENCY_SYNC + if (regular_sync_scheduled) { +#ifdef DEBUG + printk (KERN_DEBUG "kflushd: sync\n"); +#endif + regular_sync_scheduled = 0; + fsync_dev(0); + } + ncount = 0; #ifdef DEBUG for(nlist = 0; nlist < NR_LIST; nlist++) --- linux-2.1.126/mm/vmscan.c.O Wed Oct 28 17:09:51 1998 +++ linux-2.1.126/mm/vmscan.c Wed Oct 28 19:26:50 1998 @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ * kswapd added: 7.1.96 sct * Removed kswapd_ctl limits, and swap out as many pages as needed * to bring the system back to freepages.high: 2.4.97, Rik van Riel. + * Added sync_interval, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa * Version: $Id: vmscan.c,v 1.5 1998/02/23 22:14:28 sct Exp $ */ @@ -40,6 +41,18 @@ static unsigned long next_swap_jiffies = int swapout_interval = HZ / 4; /* + * How often do we sync? + * Default is every 30 seconds. + */ +int sync_interval = HZ * 30; + +/* + * Flag so bdflush knows when to sync + */ +int regular_sync_scheduled = 0; +void wakeup_bdflush (int); + +/* * The wait queue for waking up the pageout daemon: */ struct wait_queue * kswapd_wait = NULL; @@ -655,6 +668,13 @@ void swap_tick(void) kswapd_wakeup(); } } + + /* Sync */ + if (now % sync_interval == 0) { + regular_sync_scheduled = 1; + wakeup_bdflush(0); + } + timer_active |= (1<<SWAP_TIMER); }
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