[ unrelated to the original thread ] On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 02:37:43PM -0700, Jim Sibley wrote: > Since we are a mixed OS shop, the operators are used > to punching the reset button for MVS; they try > this on Linux - MVS survives, Linux often does not!. > Either you can get ulcers trying to train your > operators or you try to bullet proof your systems. I'd > rather bullet proof my systems.
Why not make "the button" cause a proper shutdown? > The most interesting > one I've seen is the 64bit Linux with 5 GB of memory - > it was "idle" over the weekend and Monday morning the > user hit the reset button - the result was the respack > was completely unuseable, even after fsck! Why? > Because the default bdflush cache dirty percent is so > high that meta data got lost! (I currently set my this > value to zero to force writes as soon as possible). -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+
