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On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 19:14 +0000, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
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<A HREF="mailto:J.Heather@surrey.ac.uk">J.Heather@surrey.ac.uk</A> wrote, On 03/06/2010 10:42 AM:
> The one thing left to sort is the write cache. One of the machines
> crashed, and one of them lost quite a lot of her work because it hadn't
> hit the usb stick by then.
>
Launching something like
(while sleep 1; do sync; done) &
somewhere might help.
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Well, I did wonder about that, or a cron job that runs once a minute. It's something of a kludge, though, and it might make the machine unresponsive.<BR>
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There must surely be the equivalent of the dirty_writeback setting for vm paging? (That sets how long something can remain in the paging write cache before being written to disk.) It's an obvious thing to have.<BR>
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James
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