Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264083AbUDRALh (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Apr 2004 20:11:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264086AbUDRALf (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Apr 2004 20:11:35 -0400 Received: from adsl-207-214-87-84.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([207.214.87.84]:7296 "EHLO lade.trondhjem.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264083AbUDRALf (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Apr 2004 20:11:35 -0400 Subject: Re: vmscan.c heuristic adjustment for smaller systems From: Trond Myklebust To: Andrew Morton Cc: Marc Singer , wli@holomorphy.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20040417165151.24b1fed5.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20040417193855.GP743@holomorphy.com> <20040417212958.GA8722@flea> <20040417162125.3296430a.akpm@osdl.org> <20040417233037.GA15576@flea> <20040417165151.24b1fed5.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1082247084.3619.2.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 17:11:24 -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 552 Lines: 15 On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 16:51, Andrew Morton wrote: > What happens if you do the big file copy, then run `sync', then do the ls? You shouldn't ever need to do "sync" with NFS unless you are using mmap(). close() will suffice to flush out all dirty pages in the case of ordinary file writes. Cheers, Trond - 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/