From a526cb9e317cc4cfdbf7a5aee53e544b998f08bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 07:31:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Include a comment explaining the usual delay between writes
 and syncs.

---
 share/man/man4/syncer.4 | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/share/man/man4/syncer.4 b/share/man/man4/syncer.4
index 2ec97f973b3..13295877927 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/syncer.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/syncer.4
@@ -52,6 +52,11 @@ on that queue,
 the 
 .Nm
 process forces a write out to disk of its dirty buffers.
+.Pp
+Usually,
+buffers will be written out no more than
+about 30 seconds
+after they are dirtied.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr sync 2 ,
 .Xr fsck 8 ,