Re: [PATCH] krflushd

Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Mon, 2 Nov 1998 11:42:40 +0100


Hi!

> Applying the patch makes it possible to get rid of bdflush/update [0]
> The process is renamed to krflushd so in your init script, after mounting
> /proc, you can write something:

I think that bdflush is much smarter than that: your patch makes
kernel sync once every 30 seconds. bdflush is normally more
intelligent: it writes smaller ammounts of data more often in order of
not generating peaks of heavy disk i/o.
Pavel

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