RE: Question on bdflush

From: Pierre Etchemaite (petchema@concept-micro.com)
Date: Wed Nov 15 2000 - 04:38:37 EST

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Le 14-Nov-2000, Zhiruo Cao écrivait :
> Why does bdflush (kupdated and kflushed) writes to disk periodically even
> though the system is apparently idle. I think if no more new buffers
> becomes dirty, kflushed show not write anything to disk. I'm working
> on a notebook, and I found the periodic disk access is very annoying and
> consuming a lot of power.

Look for noflushd on Freshmeat...

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