21 Nov
2005
21 Nov
'05
7:45 p.m.
Ralf Müller wrote:
On Montag 21 November 2005 02:15, Artur Skawina wrote:
...
Are saying you don't get any writeback activity w/ my patch?
Correct. It starts writing back when memory is filled. Not a single second earlier.
Under normal default circumstances, all dirty data should be synced to disk within 30 seconds.
This reminds me of a recent LKML thread. It noted that under some circumstances the kernel seems to forget to flush the dirty data. It didn't come to any particular conclusion but maybe there is a problem in the kernel. It might be an interesting read for you...
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0511.1/2043.html
Jon