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From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
To: Peter Kok <cckok00@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk>
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Subject: Re: syncing disks
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On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Peter Kok wrote:

> sometimes after i shutdown freebsd
> 
> syncing disks 	3	3 	done
> 
> sometime	3	2	done
> 
> somestimes	5	5	done
> 
> why?  ,and what is the number standsfor?

As far as I know these are counters for the number of buffer cache blocks
which still have to be written to disk.

As you surely know FreeBSD as any other UNIX system buffers disk i/o to
enhance performance. 

Konrad Heuer

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