jmarin@embedtronics.fi (Jukka Marin) writes:

>Wow :-)  But I don't think delaying a catastrophe is the same as preventing
>it :-)  I would like to slow down the sync operation (to leave part of the
>I/O capacity for other things).  I guess I could try making the delays real
>short and see what happens then..

The problem comes from running out of buffers. You want to sync
often and you want to sync fewer buffers in a burst to mitigate
the problem.

What happened to the trickle sync, does it still work?

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