Hmm. It used to be that easy a long time ago. Seems the really useful parameters are still hidden. I am more than a bit anoyed by this. Does anybody here know where the eraly flush timeout can be found? Arno On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:21:32PM +0200, Sven Eschenberg wrote: > Erh, no, this would come down to 0.1 seconds (since it's 100th - centi). > > And now, it does not start a flush, it only wakes the daemon up for > analysis and consideration. If, and how much is flushed depends on other > tuneables. > Unfortunately it's not that straight forward. > > Regards > > -Sven > > P.S.: Sorry for the duplicate post with the wrong e-mail addy. > > On Fri, September 18, 2009 23:09, Arno Wagner wrote: > > > > A pity. Have you tried to set dirty_writeback_centisecs to > > something very low, e.g. 10? If I understand this correctly that would > cause regular flushes to start after 1 sec. > > > > > > Arno > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt > -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt