Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: unlink aggressively robs resources | | From | Anders Melchiorsen <> | | Date | 17 Jun 1998 14:53:48 +0200 |
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Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl> writes:
> 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.
What do you mean by "more controlled"? Do you suggest that it is actually better to run without update?
-- Regards, Anders <URL:http://www.kampsax.dtu.dk/~and/>
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