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dirty_expire_centisecs

Submitted by admin on Wed, 2006-05-31 16:01

This tunable is used to define when dirty data is old enough to be eligible for writeout by the pdflush daemons. It is expressed in 100'ths of a second. Data which has been dirty in memory for longer than this interval will be written out next time a pdflush daemon wakes up.

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