> Olaf.. yes I had a problem with a dameon, I think it was
> bdflush, but cannot remember. I just SIGTERM'd it. It did not
> crash my system or hang, it, 2.2.9 has been VERY stable for me.
> I have had a process or two suddenly grab a cpu and slam it 99%
> and keep it there till I SIGTERM the program, but that has been
> rare (less than 5 times).
>
> Joe
>
Well, I just disabled the update (bdflush) daemon completely
and my system (2.2.9 with SMP) seems to run absolutely stable.
I don't even know what this daemon is exactly doing, or how
important its "presence" really is. But I couldn't live with
this guy, the system freezes sooner or later. The comment in
the boot script sounds like it should be running, but this was
written for kernel 2.0.36 (I started some time ago with
SuSE Linux 6.0 - a german distribution) and might be obsolete.
In the "kernel patch summary" for 2.2.9 you can read:
"Notes: Due to the changes in this kernel's buffer code, you
may want to disable the update (bdflush) daemon
in your init scripts."
My experience was that I _have_ to disable it for the SMP
kernel.
Olaf.
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