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

Martin Pool mbp at samba.org
Wed Feb 4 02:59:28 GMT 2004


On  4 Feb 2004, Michael Still <mikal at stillhq.com> wrote:
> 
> 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...

Try using SysRq to find out at what address it is spending time.

It's very likely doing something in the filesystem code, so somebody
using a different filesystem might well see different behaviour.

-- 
Martin 
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