Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I can't think of any good reason why the bgwriter_delay can't be reduced
> to 1s if that simplifies things.
The simplification Heikki suggests would save a grand total of 9 lines
of C code, two of which are braces. Is it really worth it to make such
strin
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
Simon Riggs wrote:
Laptop mode? Linux has it...
Granted, though you're still going to wake up every second, so I'm not sure
how much it helps with battery life.
In this context, Linux's laptop mode is all about keeping the disks from
spinning
Simon Riggs wrote:
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 15:53 +0100, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
The maximum for bgwriter_delay is currently 10 seconds. That's a long
time, and in fact if you set it to a value greater than 1 s, the sleep
is split into 1 s intervals with a call to AbsorbFsyncRequests in
between
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 15:53 +0100, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> The maximum for bgwriter_delay is currently 10 seconds. That's a long
> time, and in fact if you set it to a value greater than 1 s, the sleep
> is split into 1 s intervals with a call to AbsorbFsyncRequests in
> between them.
>
> I
