Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Oct 1998 09:36:34 +0200 | From | Kurt Garloff <> | Subject | Re: Kflushd not flushing? |
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On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 03:18:22PM -0500, Fuzzy Fox wrote: > On my 2.1.125 system, I have a kflushd and an update (bdflush) daemon > both running. Is this incorrect configuration? My setup was leftover > from the 2.0 kernel that I upgraded from, so maybe I am not supposed to > be running bdflush? Please advise.
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.
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