Arch Linux

aosho235

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From: Japan

Registered: 2016-02-14

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pdflush equivalent in Arch?

ps aux | grep flush

shows nothing in my installation. Instead [writeback] is in the output. Is this it? Why does the flush daemon name differ according to the distro (pdflush/flush-*/kdmflush) ?

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

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Re: pdflush equivalent in Arch?

It's next to the chisel you use to hammer your grocery list into a rock: https://lwn.net/Articles/508212/

aosho235

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From: Japan

Registered: 2016-02-14

Posts: 4

Re: pdflush equivalent in Arch?

Hi, Awebb.
Thanks for the link. The kernel no longer uses a thread to write the buffers back, no?
I'd appreciate it if anybody could give me a resouce with which I can learn how the kernel treats dirty buffers.

Last edited by aosho235 (2016-03-04 10:33:57)