Hi Richard,
> I found that the large flushes, taking a long time, made my workstation
> a bit temperamental so I run a little daemon that does what bdflush used
> to do:
>
> for(;;)
> {
> sync();
> sleep(30);
> }
Calling sync() is a Bad Thing as far as performance goes. It holds the
global kernel lock for quite a long time. On a production server, that
_would_ cause things to grind to a halt for the duration of the flush. On a
workstation, it'll not do too much harm. The kernel thread kflushd does (or
should do) what bdflush does anyway.
- Dan
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