From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtprelay04.ispgateway.de ([80.67.18.16]) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1EZq4e-0005C7-Lm for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 08:33:17 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO deepspace9.in2soft.meep) (547986@[84.153.73.11]) (envelope-sender ) by smtprelay04.ispgateway.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 9 Nov 2005 13:33:11 -0000 Received: from [192.168.0.63] (unknown [192.168.0.63]) by deepspace9.in2soft.meep (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6783B6A77 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 14:32:07 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4371FA94.6070602@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 14:33:08 +0100 From: Bernhard Priewasser MIME-Version: 1.0 To: MTD mailing list References: <4370AA55.6060703@gmail.com> <4370B9A3.2000809@yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: <4370B9A3.2000809@yandex.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: How to produce dirty space List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , > For the information when things are flushed see "/proc/sys/vm - the > virtual memory subsystem" at Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. Got it: > [/proc/sys/vm/]dirty_writeback_centisecs > ---------------------------------------- > > The pdflush writeback daemons will periodically wake up and write > `old' data out to disk. This tunable expresses the interval between > those wakeups, in 100'ths of a second. Thanks, -- Bernhard