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From: Pierre Etchemaite <petchema@concept-micro.com>
To: Zhiruo Cao <zhiruo@cc.gatech.edu>
Subject: RE: Question on bdflush
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Le 14-Nov-2000, Zhiruo Cao ?crivait :
> 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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