Re: drop_caches ...

Wu Fengguang
2009-03-05T14:08:03Z

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 04:01:25PM +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 09:36:03PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > > filesize and "cached" the amount of the file being in cache (why can
> > > this be bigger than the file?!).
> >
> > size = file size in bytes
> > cached = cached pages
> >
> > So it's normal that (size > cached).
>
> and one more thing. It seems that at least in the version of filecache I have,
> the size and cached are in kB rather than in B.

Ah sorry for the confusion, it is in KB: DIV_ROUND_UP(size, 1024).
It may be better to simply use bytes though.

Thanks,
Fengguang