From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Brian Dushaw <dushaw@munk.apl.washington.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux kernel - and regular sync'ing?
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 12:46:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010309124609.B449@bug.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0103071959050.17257-100000@munk.apl.washington.edu> <E14azEv-0002qR-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E14azEv-0002qR-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from Alan Cox on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:09:51PM +0000
Hi!
> > at irregular intervals of 10-30 seconds, most likely calls to sync, so
> > that the disk never gets to sleep for long. I've followed advice in the
> > various HOWTO's, e.g. modifying the line "ud::once:/sbin/update" in
> > /etc/inittab to only sync once an hour, to no avail. Watching "top", it
>
> Thats actually I think poor advice - it wont help and its asking to
> lose data
Get noflushd. (It is _also_ asking for data loose, if you write and
disk is spinned down, it will *not* bother spinning it up; you can
leave atimes on.)
Pavel
--
I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-08 4:21 Linux kernel - and regular sync'ing? Brian Dushaw
2001-03-08 12:09 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-08 22:33 ` Russell King
2001-03-08 22:50 ` Brian Dushaw
2001-03-12 19:27 ` Mark Shewmaker
2001-03-13 19:43 ` Russell King
2001-03-09 11:46 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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