[clug] Is pdflush the FBI spying on my machine?

[Grahame Jordan]

pdflush is for flushing out dirty buffers to disk. If however you have
little RAM and lots of swap it may indeed thrash for a little while while
doing this task.

If you are concerned abut the FBI pull out your network cable and turm off
your screen. (They can read your screen from sattilites nowdays :))


>
> Hey,
>
> when I shutdown my 2.6.0 machine, pdflush takes a _long_ time maxing out
>  the CPU before the machine can shutdown cleanly (we're talking about in
>  the order of a minute or two). A quick google shows lots of pdflush
> patches, but no discussion of what it is...
>
> So, what is it? And why is it sending back all my personal information
> to  the FBI on shutdown?
>
> Cheers,
> Mikal
>
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