From: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
Subject: Re: async vs. sync
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:49:54 +0200
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On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 02:35:51PM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> Well, I only see this on 2.6. systems, but not on 2.4., are there similar 
> triggers in 2.4.?  With 2.6. we don't have the problem at all.

On 2.4 you'd have to play with the bdflush tunables. I cant
remember what all these numbers mean; consult the documentation.
But there are also some tunables there that let you configure
when bdflush starts writing out dirty pages.

Olaf
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