Re: [PATCH] krflushd

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa (ragnar@redestb.es)
Tue, 3 Nov 1998 04:01:06 +0100 (CET)

> 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.

Then, as long as bdflush is doing its smart job, there's no reason to
expect high i/o peaks.. I've been running the patch in two different
environments without any problems, so I'm happy with it.

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