Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 20 Oct 1998 08:30:32 +0200 | | From | Kurt Garloff <> | | Subject | Re: Kflushd not flushing? |
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On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 09:36:34AM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote: > It's correct. IIRC, klushd only frees buffer memory when your memory goes > low, whereas update (aka bdflush) fress buffer memory on a regular basis. > And you want data being written to disk to be there after some time, not > only if you run low of memory, I suppose.
Another question is, if it wouldn't be trivial to implement a buffer mem flush on a regular basis within kflushd and getting rid of update/bdflush. Anybody tried that? Any reasons not to do it?
-- Kurt Garloff, Dortmund <K.Garloff@ping.de> PGP key on http://student.physik.uni-dortmund.de/homepages/garloff
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