From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264549AbTEaRpS (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 May 2003 13:45:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264555AbTEaRpS (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 May 2003 13:45:18 -0400 Received: from pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com ([12.47.58.20]:21826 "EHLO pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264549AbTEaRpR (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 May 2003 13:45:17 -0400 Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 10:58:50 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Michael Buesch Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: pdflush -> noflushd related question Message-Id: <20030531105850.7cc92601.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <200305311841.59599.fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> References: <200305311841.59599.fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0pre1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 31 May 2003 17:58:39.0195 (UTC) FILETIME=[43C732B0:01C3279E] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Michael Buesch wrote: > > So, how to set the interval, or better sayed, how to _stop_ > buffer flushing in 2.5? /proc/sys/vm has the appropriate tunables. They are documented in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. You can turn these guys off by setting the sysctls to 1000000000 I guess. Problem is, I don't think there's a way of starting them again until the ten million seconds expires. hmm.