Re: Linux 2.1.103 very lazy on flushing dirty buffers.

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
27 May 1998 12:31:24 +0200


"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.

-Andi

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