SUMMARY: sync and fsflush

John Birtley (jbirtley@baesema.co.uk)
Fri, 17 Oct 1997 12:55:48 +0100 (BST)

Original Post:

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Is the syncing of filesystems now a system function rather
than a cron job? If so, how can I change the frequence or
even disable it?
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There are two tunable parameters:

tune_f_fsflush
Takes an integer argument which specifies the frequency
(in seconds) of the fsflush routine being called
within the kernel. This affects incremental page writes.

autoup
Again takes an integer which specifies the frequency of
full page writes from memory to disk.

Thanks to:

Ian T Collins
Jon Anderson
Ron G. Crum
Kevin Sheehan

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