Re: unlink aggressively robs resources

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Wed, 17 Jun 1998 10:16:33 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Dean Gaudet wrote:
>
> >I've noticed this with 2.1.84, .86, and .103 kernels. When you unlink
> >large files on an ext2 disk, the machine becomes extremely choppy. Not
>
> You could try to killall -9 update (note that doing that if your machine
> will crash you will lost ton of cached data).

No you won't. Kflushd will push the data to disk, but in a
more controlled fashion than update(8) did...
I've been running without update or bdflush for a _long_
time now, and no problems, ever.

Rik.
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