Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 31 May 2003 11:42:08 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: pdflush -> noflushd related question |
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Michael Buesch <fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 31 May 2003 19:58, Andrew Morton wrote: > > You can turn these guys off by setting the sysctls to 1000000000 > > I guess. Problem is, I don't think there's a way of starting them > > again until the ten million seconds expires. hmm. > > I've thought a little bit more about it. > Why do you think, there is no way of waking up? > Is it, because, when I set it to 1000000000 and the back to, > let's say, 500, the pdflush threads don't wake up to recognize > this change? Is this the cause?
Yes.
> What about signaling all pdflush threads with, for example, > for(ALL_PDFLUSHS) > kill(pid, SIGSTOP); > > Don't they wake up then and recognize the reducing of the timeout? > The old noflushd did so to wake up updated.
No, that's OK - I'll fix it in the kernel. It's pretty simple.
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