>On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>> On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Dean Gaudet wrote:
>>
>> >I've noticed this with 2.1.84, .86, and .103 kernels. When you unlink
>> >large files on an ext2 disk, the machine becomes extremely choppy. Not
>>
>> You could try to killall -9 update (note that doing that if your machine
>> will crash you will lost ton of cached data).
>
>No you won't. Kflushd will push the data to disk, but in a
>more controlled fashion than update(8) did...
Sure it put data to disk too (supposing that we have finite memory ;-),
but try to shutdown your computer and feedback the output of fsck if
update is not running.
If the machine doesn' t crash I agree that there are not problems.
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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