Re: How to tune pdflush?

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Apr 28 2004 - 00:34:55 EST


"Brett E." <brettspamacct@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I would like to tune pdflush so the writeback isn't too greedy, right
> now the system is unusable due to high disk I/O after creating a bunch
> of files. I know, faster disks would be better.. Tuning the writeback
> would also be a nice option, we had it in 2.4 with /proc/sys/vm/bdflush.

The tunables in /proc/sys/vm are documented in
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
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