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From: Bill Mair <bill.mair@web.de>
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: [linux-lvm] Re: Daemon or Thread with 5 minute interval
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 16:48:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d74ged$ueo$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4295B7F7.9060802@hp.com>

Howard Rifkin wrote:
>  So, my question is does anyone know of a
> kernel thread or daemon in the 2.4 kernel that wakes up every 5 minutes?

[kupdated] can cause massive CPU load if your kernel does not have the IDE 
chipset support for your system. I think it flushed any data in the HD
buffers to disk and if the chipset support isn't there, then the main CPU has
to do this using PIO.

--
Bill

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-26 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-26 11:50 [linux-lvm] Daemon or Thread with 5 minute interval Howard Rifkin
2005-05-26 12:22 ` johnpaul
2005-05-26 14:48 ` Bill Mair [this message]
2005-05-26 17:26   ` [linux-lvm] " Howard Rifkin
2005-05-26 19:42     ` Bill Mair
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-05-26 19:29 bill.mair

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