Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 May 1998 18:04:26 +0200 | From | ak@muc ... | Subject | Re: Linux 2.1.103 very lazy on flushing dirty buffers. |
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On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 03:43:43PM +0200, Wolfram Gloger wrote: > > "David S. Miller" <davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com> writes: > > > > > This should never happen if update/bdflush is running in userspace, > > > which guarentees a dirty buffer flush ever minute or so. > > > > bdflush runs. I think the key word is "should" - something in 2.1 seems > > to mess up the syncs. > > A very old `update/bdflush' binary may be the problem -- if I remember > right it was only required for some 1.x kernels which lacked kernel > threads. Now for some reason the bdflush system call seems to no > longer work in the same way, so an old `update/bdflush' daemon does no > longer sync regularly -- it may get stuck in the bdflush system call.
This is not the case. The system in question runs RH5.0 and was just installed from scratch (empty HD) 1h before I discovered it.
-A.
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