Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Jun 1998 10:16:33 +0200 (CEST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: unlink aggressively robs resources |
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On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Dean Gaudet wrote: > > >I've noticed this with 2.1.84, .86, and .103 kernels. When you unlink > >large files on an ext2 disk, the machine becomes extremely choppy. Not > > You could try to killall -9 update (note that doing that if your machine > will crash you will lost ton of cached data).
No you won't. Kflushd will push the data to disk, but in a more controlled fashion than update(8) did... I've been running without update or bdflush for a _long_ time now, and no problems, ever.
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