Daemon or Thread with 5 minute interval
Quoted 9 lines · Howard Rifkin
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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.--
Bill
** In addition to my post I might add that kswapd and bdflushd also deal with IDE drives.
** Correcting my initial reply, kupdated deals with "journal" flushing to the HD, which may also be relevant on your cluster.
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Bill