On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 14:26 +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011, guy keren wrote about "[Haifux] some additions and > eratta to today's lecture": > > > > 1. etzion asked about controlling the age of dirty pages before pdflush > > flushes them - the default value is 30 seconds, and can be seen by: > > > > cat /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs > > > > (the time there is in milli-seconds). it can be changed by echoing > > the desired time into that file, e.g. to change it to 40 seconds: > > > > echo 40 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs > > Would I be wrong to assume that since the file name is "centisecs", it is > indeed centisecs (1/100th of a second), neither milli-seconds nor seconds > as you wrote above?
err.. you're right. the default value is '3000', which amounts to 30 seconds, so to set it to 40 seconds - one should echo "4000" into that file. --guy _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
