Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:51:23 -0500 | | From | Mark Lord <> | | Subject | Re: 2.6.xx: dirty pages never being sync'd to disk? |
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Mark Lord wrote: > Another intriguing observation: > > If I do my file copy test from files that are already cached, > then the data usually gets committed to disk more or less > right away.
And even in that case, /proc/meminfo still shows the memory as "Dirty", until a "sync" is done. Why is that? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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