RE: Oops in pdflush

Chen, Kenneth W
2006-09-06T17:44:38Z

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