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Jeff Chua wrote:
> 
> 2.5.53 kernel complaint about ...
> 
> warning: process 'update' used the obsolete bdflush system call.
> Fix your initscripts?
> 
> ... what's the replacement for "update-2.11"?
> 

There isn't one.  The daemon itself has been obsolete for years.

The parameters all changed, and the interface for setting those
is to read or write the entries in /proc/sys/vm/.  They are mostly
described in Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt.
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