Ralf M?ller 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
