Subject: Re[2]: The world stops every 30 seconds.
To: port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG, Daniel Brown <crp02@holyrood.ed.ac.uk>
From: Alex McLintock <Alex.McLintock@chadwyck.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 04/14/1997 09:41:34
> Every 30 seconds or so, RiscBSD makes certain that the contents of any
> harddiscs mounted are up to date by running sync.
Would it be possible to tie this into user activity? eg if the user has not
pressed a key for 30 seconds then run sync. (Of course this means that we need a
second timer for occaisions when the user is typing continuously - say every
three minutes?)
Alex