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From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 17:44:38 +0000
Subject: RE: Oops in pdflush
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D.N.Jagannathan wrote on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 6:27 AM
> can anybody explain what is and the importance of pdflush process 
> running in Linux.

pdflush is a kernel thread that periodically flushing dirty pages in
page cache in order to ensure in-memory data are consistent with disk
storage.

- Ken