21 Oct
2009
21 Oct
'09
6:23 p.m.
Les Mikesell wrote:
Are there any good options to configure a filesystem so most activity takes place in the RAM buffer with the flush to physical media allowed to lag very far behind? OpenNMS does some data collection that keeps the disk very busy. I don't want to lose the history completely in a crash like you would with a ramdisk, but it wouldn't be a big problem if only the last 10-30 minutes would be dropped.
see the commit option for ext3
commit=nrsec Sync all data and metadata every nrsec seconds. The default value is 5 seconds. Zero means default.
nate