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2886d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Dd July 14, 2000
2986d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Dt SYNCER 4
3086d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Os
3186d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh NAME
3286d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Nm syncer
3386d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Nd filesystem synchronizer kernel process
3486d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh SYNOPSIS
3586d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Nm
3686d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh DESCRIPTION
3786d7f5d3SJohn MarinoThe
3886d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Nm
3986d7f5d3SJohn Marinokernel process helps protect the integrity of disk volumes
4086d7f5d3SJohn Marinoby flushing volatile cached filesystem data to disk.
4186d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Pp
4286d7f5d3SJohn MarinoThe kernel places all
4386d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Xr vnode 9 Ns 's
4486d7f5d3SJohn Marinoin a number of queues.
4586d7f5d3SJohn MarinoThe
4686d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Nm
4786d7f5d3SJohn Marinoprocess works through the queues
4886d7f5d3SJohn Marinoin a round-robin fashion,
4986d7f5d3SJohn Marinousually processing one queue per second.
5086d7f5d3SJohn MarinoFor each
5186d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Xr vnode 9
5286d7f5d3SJohn Marinoon that queue,
5386d7f5d3SJohn Marinothe
5486d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Nm
5586d7f5d3SJohn Marinoprocess forces a write out to disk of its dirty buffers.
5686d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Pp
5786d7f5d3SJohn MarinoThe usual delay between the time buffers are dirtied
5886d7f5d3SJohn Marinoand the time they are synced
5986d7f5d3SJohn Marinois controlled by the following
6086d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Xr sysctl 8
6186d7f5d3SJohn Marinotunable variables:
6286d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Bl -column "filedelayXXXX" "DefaultXX" "DescriptionXX"
6386d7f5d3SJohn Marino.It Em Variable Ta Em Default Ta Em Description
6486d7f5d3SJohn Marino.It Va kern.filedelay Ta 30 Ta "time to delay syncing files"
6586d7f5d3SJohn Marino.It Va kern.dirdelay Ta 29 Ta "time to delay syncing directories"
6686d7f5d3SJohn Marino.It Va kern.metadelay Ta 28 Ta "time to delay syncing metadata"
6786d7f5d3SJohn Marino.El
6886d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh SEE ALSO
6986d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Xr sync 2 ,
7086d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Xr fsck 8 ,
7186d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Xr sync 8 ,
7286d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Xr sysctl 8
7386d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh HISTORY
7486d7f5d3SJohn MarinoThe
7586d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Nm
7686d7f5d3SJohn Marinoprocess is a descendant of the
7786d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sq update
7886d7f5d3SJohn Marinocommand, which appeared in
7986d7f5d3SJohn Marino.At v6 ,
8086d7f5d3SJohn Marinoand was usually started by
8186d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Pa /etc/rc
8286d7f5d3SJohn Marinowhen the system went multi-user.
8386d7f5d3SJohn MarinoA kernel initiated
8486d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sq update
8586d7f5d3SJohn Marinoprocess first appeared in
8686d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Fx 2.0 .
8786d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh BUGS
8886d7f5d3SJohn MarinoIt is possible on some systems that a
8986d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Xr sync 2
9086d7f5d3SJohn Marinooccurring simultaneously with a crash may cause
9186d7f5d3SJohn Marinofile system damage.  See
9286d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Xr fsck 8 .
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