From: Pierre Etchemaite <petchema@concept-micro.com>
To: Zhiruo Cao <zhiruo@cc.gatech.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: Question on bdflush
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:38:37 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20001115103837.petchema@concept-micro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSU.4.21.0011141847460.26147-100000@lennon.cc.gatech.edu>
Le 14-Nov-2000, Zhiruo Cao écrivait :
> Why does bdflush (kupdated and kflushed) writes to disk periodically even
> though the system is apparently idle. I think if no more new buffers
> becomes dirty, kflushed show not write anything to disk. I'm working
> on a notebook, and I found the periodic disk access is very annoying and
> consuming a lot of power.
Look for noflushd on Freshmeat...
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2000-11-14 23:52 Question on bdflush Zhiruo Cao
2000-11-15 8:52 ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-15 9:38 ` Pierre Etchemaite [this message]
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