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DateTue, 20 Oct 1998 08:30:32 +0200
FromKurt Garloff <>
SubjectRe: Kflushd not flushing?
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?

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Kurt Garloff, Dortmund
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