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Date:      Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:57:40 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Chuck Barnett <cbarnett@netcabtec.com>
Cc:        "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: syncer
Message-ID:  <20000302125739.A14279@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <E5377B025A5AD311914900A0C9EBC22901D6AF@MUNNIN>; from cbarnett@netcabtec.com on Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 12:28:15PM -0600
References:  <E5377B025A5AD311914900A0C9EBC22901D6AF@MUNNIN>

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* Chuck Barnett <cbarnett@netcabtec.com> [000302 11:00] wrote:
> Hello, I have a question.  Does anyone know what syncer is? this is from ps
> -aux
>  
> root       4  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  DL   Wed08AM   0:03.09  (syncer)

It's a kernel thread that handles pushing stale data to the disk.

-Alfred


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