Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 10:25:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 10:25:13 -0500 Received: from cisco7500-mainGW.gts.cz ([194.213.32.131]:1796 "EHLO bug.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 10:25:09 -0500 Message-ID: <20010309124609.B449@bug.ucw.cz> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 12:46:09 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Alan Cox , Brian Dushaw Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux kernel - and regular sync'ing? In-Reply-To:

Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: ; from Alan Cox on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:09:51PM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/