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    SubjectRe: PATCH: rewritten bdflush

    On Wed, 12 May 1999, Marc Lehmann wrote:

    > Does you patch implement something similar or do we need to spin up drives
    > every 5 seconds? ;)
    >
    > This is a real concern for me, as I want to get some sleep during the
    > nights (and I can't sleep with harddisks running ;)

    You could have a cron job adjust the /proc/sys/vm/bdflush parameters at
    certain times of the day. For example, at 12am set the thread to wake up
    every 30 mins or something, then set it back to 5s at 7am. Kinda
    dangerous, though.


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