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From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@gmail.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.xx:  dirty pages never being sync'd to disk?
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:51:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4378CE9B.9020802@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4378CD12.9010606@rtr.ca>

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?

      reply	other threads:[~2005-11-14 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-14 15:30 2.6.xx: dirty pages never being sync'd to disk? Mark Lord
2005-11-14 15:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-11-14 15:49   ` Mark Lord
2005-11-14 15:54     ` Mark Lord
2005-11-14 16:56     ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-14 17:15       ` Mark Lord
2005-11-14 17:38         ` Mark Lord
2005-11-14 17:44         ` Mark Lord
2005-11-14 17:51           ` Mark Lord [this message]

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