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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: "syncing disk...3 3" <- ? Date: 22 Jun 1996 12:06:16 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4qgnjo$q31@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31C266F3.41C67EA6@uiuc.edu> <4pv38c$84e@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4q2baa$4eb@fu-berlin.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de (Axel Thimm) wrote: > >The number of outstanding buffers that need to be saved to the disk. > > Why are there two numbers (phenomenically increasing with the time the > system was up ???) that sometimes do not match? (Do I have something > broken?) There are much more numbers if you just type `reboot' after a process with heavy disk-writing activity (like a ``make; make install'' of your kernel). As i wrote, the number of outstanding buffers, printed on the console once per second until no more buffers need to be flushed, so the reboot can happen. (Or until the system gets stuck in not being able to flush them due to some problem, so it finally gives up and reboots with an unclean disk.) As long as the numbers are quickly decreasing, everything is okay. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)