From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264184AbTEaSL2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 May 2003 14:11:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264383AbTEaSL1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 May 2003 14:11:27 -0400 Received: from smtp015.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.173.59]:13061 "HELO smtp015.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264184AbTEaSL0 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 May 2003 14:11:26 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: pdflush -> noflushd related question Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 20:24:52 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <200305311841.59599.fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> <20030531105850.7cc92601.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030531105850.7cc92601.akpm@digeo.com> Cc: linux kernel mailing list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305312024.52920.fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 31 May 2003 19:58, Andrew Morton wrote: > Michael Buesch wrote: > > So, how to set the interval, or better sayed, how to _stop_ > > buffer flushing in 2.5? > > /proc/sys/vm has the appropriate tunables. They are documented in > Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. > > You can turn these guys off by setting the sysctls to 1000000000 > I guess. Problem is, I don't think there's a way of starting them > again until the ten million seconds expires. hmm. Thanks Andrew, that's a good point to goon hacking. :) I'll look at it. - -- Regards Michael Büsch http://www.8ung.at/tuxsoft 20:21:50 up 5:54, 2 users, load average: 2.01, 2.02, 2.00 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+2PN0oxoigfggmSgRArlBAJ9zZBsnnAjTA8s6cTK7xPeFDM+v+wCffyE/ fLHzyat7wxgEu1902BYQtUg= =eq9e -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----