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dirty_writeback_centisecs

Submitted by admin on Wed, 2006-05-31 16:07

The pdflush writeback daemons will periodically wake up and write "old" data out to disk. This tunable expresses the interval between those wakeups, in 100'ths of a second.

Setting this to zero disables periodic writeback altogether.

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