92 lines
2.8 KiB
Groff
92 lines
2.8 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 2000 Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org>
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd July 14, 2000
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.Dt SYNCER 4
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm syncer
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.Nd file system synchronizer kernel process
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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kernel process helps protect the integrity of disk volumes
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by flushing volatile cached file system data to disk.
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.Pp
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The kernel places all
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.Xr vnode 9 Ns 's
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in a number of queues.
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The
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.Nm
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process works through the queues
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in a round-robin fashion,
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usually processing one queue per second.
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For each
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.Xr vnode 9
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on that queue,
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the
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.Nm
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process forces a write out to disk of its dirty buffers.
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.Pp
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The usual delay between the time buffers are dirtied
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and the time they are synced
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is controlled by the following
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.Xr sysctl 8
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tunable variables:
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.Bl -column "filedelayXXXX" "DefaultXX" "DescriptionXX"
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.It Em Variable Ta Em Default Ta Em Description
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.It Va kern.filedelay Ta 30 Ta "time to delay syncing files"
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.It Va kern.dirdelay Ta 29 Ta "time to delay syncing directories"
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.It Va kern.metadelay Ta 28 Ta "time to delay syncing metadata"
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr sync 2 ,
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.Xr fsck 8 ,
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.Xr sync 8 ,
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.Xr sysctl 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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process is a descendant of the
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.Sq update
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command, which appeared in
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.At v6 ,
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and was usually started by
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.Pa /etc/rc
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when the system went multi-user.
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A kernel initiated
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.Sq update
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process first appeared in
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.Fx 2.0 .
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.Sh BUGS
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It is possible on some systems that a
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.Xr sync 2
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occurring simultaneously with a crash may cause
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file system damage. See
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.Xr fsck 8 .
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