Back in single-cpu days, mdinfo was flushed immediately, is what
I remember, while mdout was flushed seldom, if at all. Not sure
how relevant that is now, but the idea was that the cost of
synchronizing with disk would be limited to a quick write.
Bill
> that is, output is flushed to the mdout file at least
> every 30 seconds, whereas the mdinfo is flushed every 60 seconds). This is
> done for performance reasons, but also shows that the mdinfo file may show
> different information than the mdout file.
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