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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> wrote:
>
> Periodically fsync() the logs so there isn't soooo much stuff to
> write. In fact, a simple sync() call about once every few seconds
> should make everything work,

Yup.  Alternatively, set /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio and /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio
to really small values.  Say, 2 and 1.