Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Aug 1997 16:39:16 +0200 | From | Martin von Loewis <> | Subject | Re: The /sbin/update Daemon |
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> > How important is it to have the update daemon running? What would be the > > consequence(s) if it is not loaded? In other words, is it really necessary? > > It's an offtopic here. No, it's not really important to run update. The > only thing it does - sync() every 30 second.
I don't think it's off-topic, and I think this answer is wrong. On most Linux installations, update is the same as bdflush. bdflush used to invoke the kernel flush mechanism, essentially providing a thread. Now that there is the kflushd, the question is valid whether a user process still needs to initiate flushing. And how does kflushd relate to what update does on other systems?
Thanks, Martin
P.S. I'm not sure about the answer, so I don't give one.
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