Re: [PATCH] 498+ days uptime

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
26 Aug 1998 08:51:13 GMT

Followup to: <19980825212228.H1299@dot.cygnus.com>
By author: Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 11:32:04AM +0800, David Luyer wrote:
> > Would it be possible to have some kernel call which is guaranteed to be
> > executed at least, say, once a week ...
>
> sync is generally called every 30 seconds by update.
>

Not anymore (update/bdflush are obsolete), but I'm sure you could
program kflushd to invoke something periodically.

-hpa

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