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Re: which process is accessing my hard drive?



Incoming from Matt Price:
> 
> Anyone know how to tweak kupdated or the "dirty buffer" "flushing"
> time using sysctl?  Unfortuantely I don't even really knwo what these phrases mean

man sysctl ; man 5 sysctl.conf ; /sbin/sysctl -w kernel.domainname="example.com"

> This sounds cool -- though I probably won'th ave an opportunity to
> recompile the kernel in the next little while (among other problems,
> I'm at 97% fulll on /dev/hda...).  But maybe the issues can be fixed

Aiiiiiiii!  With that little left, I'd be tempted to unsubscribe.


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