Re: [patch 1/2] Laptop mode support for XFS

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 11:44:47AM +0200, Bart Samwel wrote:
> The maximums that are listed for the regular flush_interval and
> age_buffer are way too low for laptop mode usage. I've considered
> increasing the maximums, but I figured they would be that low for a
> reason. By doing it this way, the maximums for regular usage aren't
> affected. If everybody thinks it's OK to simply increase the maximums on
> the regular ones to INT_MAX (or at least something like HZ*7200), I'll
> _gladly_ do that instead.

There's no real problem with large intervals (except the possible data
loss on a crash), so I'd say enlarge them.