Re: xfssyncd syncing every five seconds?

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 18:13, Simon Matter wrote:
> 
> I just wanted to say 'me too'. And I can confirm that it's new with 1.3, I
> have never seen this with any XFS version before. I have exactly the same
> kernels with XFS 1.2 and 1.3 and it only happens with 1.3.
> If you have a filesystem spread over lots of spindles, it sound a bit
> scary, every 5 seconds.
> 
> Simon
> 

I could gripe about folks reporting this after the release, rather
than before it... I just logged into my workstation from home, and
watched it for a minute or two, zero I/O during this time. On the
other hand, my laptop does appear to be doing periodic I/O and it
does seem to be every 5 seconds. I have also had a report of someone
not being able to keep their disks spun down in 2.6 on a laptop.

Scratching my head so far, 5 seconds does not really tie up with
any xfs thread.

Steve