Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: wierd behaviour... | Date | 28 Feb 1997 01:04:28 GMT |
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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???
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