Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-42,: Re: Kflushd not flushing?

# Re: Kflushd not flushing?

Kurt Garloff (garloff@kg1.ping.de)
Mon, 19 Oct 1998 09:36:34 +0200

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On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 03:18:22PM -0500, Fuzzy Fox wrote:
> On my 2.1.125 system, I have a kflushd and an update (bdflush) daemon
> both running. Is this incorrect configuration? My setup was leftover
> from the 2.0 kernel that I upgraded from, so maybe I am not supposed to
> be running bdflush? Please advise.

It's correct. IIRC, klushd only frees buffer memory when your memory goes
low, whereas update (aka bdflush) fress buffer memory on a regular basis.
And you want data being written to disk to be there after some time, not
only if you run low of memory, I suppose.

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