From 01a450a5668fe83990200f0ce65d802f62bbc509 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sheldonh Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 11:47:16 +0000 Subject: Remove mention of SYNCER_MAXDELAY and "thirty seconds", using more general terms instead. This follows a discussion with alfred, in which it became clear that I had misunderstood sched_sync(). --- share/man/man4/syncer.4 | 20 ++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'share/man/man4/syncer.4') diff --git a/share/man/man4/syncer.4 b/share/man/man4/syncer.4 index 0d8a84f..2ec97f9 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/syncer.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/syncer.4 @@ -37,14 +37,10 @@ The .Nm kernel process helps protect the integrity of disk volumes by flushing volatile cached filesystem data to disk. -This is done at thirty second -.Pq actually Dv SYNCER_MAXDELAY - 2 -intervals by default. .Pp The kernel places all .Xr vnode 9 Ns 's -in a number of queues equal to -.Dv SYNCER_MAXDELAY . +in a number of queues. The .Nm process works through the queues @@ -52,7 +48,7 @@ in a round-robin fashion, usually processing one queue per second. For each .Xr vnode 9 -on the queue, +on that queue, the .Nm process forces a write out to disk of its dirty buffers. @@ -60,12 +56,6 @@ process forces a write out to disk of its dirty buffers. .Xr sync 2 , .Xr fsck 8 , .Xr sync 8 -.Sh BUGS -It is possible on some systems that a -.Xr sync 2 -occurring simultaneously with a crash may cause -file system damage. See -.Xr fsck 8 . .Sh HISTORY The .Nm @@ -80,3 +70,9 @@ A kernel initiated update process first appeared in .Fx 2.0 . +.Sh BUGS +It is possible on some systems that a +.Xr sync 2 +occurring simultaneously with a crash may cause +file system damage. See +.Xr fsck 8 . -- cgit v1.1