Re: sync'ing and disk type...

2000-01-24 Thread Arni Raghu
Hi, This is what is the problem..Like I said the command returns almost instantly but in some machines it takes a long time..like seconds..!! what I feel is the system is not flushing regularly..what could be the possible reasons..I think it is the hardware...On dell machines i do not see this at

Re: sync'ing and disk type...

2000-01-24 Thread Hossein S. Zadeh
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Arni Raghu wrote: > On the dell machines and some assembled machines when I do a "sync" on the > command line it returns immediately..but on some of the assembled machines > whe I do a "sync" I hear hard disk activity for a while and the sync command > takes a while to return

sync'ing and disk type...

2000-01-24 Thread Arni Raghu
hi, i have a couple of linux machines all running RH 6.1..some machines are dell and some assembled.. On the dell machines and some assembled machines when I do a "sync" on the command line it returns immediately..but on some of the assembled machines whe I do a "sync" I hear hard disk activity f