[linux-lvm] Re: Daemon or Thread with 5 minute interval
From: Bill Mair <bill mair web de>
To: linux-lvm redhat com
Subject: [linux-lvm] Re: Daemon or Thread with 5 minute interval
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 16:48:21 +0200
Howard Rifkin wrote:
So, my question is does anyone know of a
kernel thread or daemon in the 2.4 kernel that wakes up every 5 minutes?
[kupdated] can cause massive CPU load if your kernel does not have the IDE
chipset support for your system. I think it flushed any data in the HD
buffers to disk and if the chipset support isn't there, then the main CPU has
to do this using PIO.