RE: kupdate, high CPU usage

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Tue Aug 01 2000 - 14:52:14 EST


On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> >Disabling kupdate or kflushd is dangerous to your data
>
> Disabling kflushd can impact the stabiliy of the system.
>
> Disabling kupdate is useful on the airplane to save battery
> power 8). (do it at your own risk of course)

You don't want to disable it.

Just set it to one-hour wakeup intervals so it'll flush
every piece of data once per hour ;)

cheers,

Rik

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