syncer4
File system synchronizer kernel process
Usage
syncer
Overview
The syncer kernel process helps protect the integrity of disk volumes by flushing volatile cached file system data to disk.
The kernel places all vnode(9)'s in a number of queues. The syncer process works through the queues in a round-robin fashion, usually processing one queue per second. For each vnode(9) on that queue, the syncer process forces a write out to disk of its dirty buffers.
The usual delay between the time buffers are dirtied and the time they are synced is controlled by the following sysctl(8) tunable variables:
| Variable | Default | Description |
| kern.filedelay | 30 | time to delay syncing files |
| kern.dirdelay | 29 | time to delay syncing directories |
| kern.metadelay | 28 | time to delay syncing metadata |