Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751209AbVKNRo5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:44:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751211AbVKNRo5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:44:57 -0500 Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:22191 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751209AbVKNRo5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:44:57 -0500 Message-ID: <4378CD12.9010606@rtr.ca> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:44:50 -0500 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051013 Debian/1.7.12-1ubuntu1 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Lord Cc: Badari Pulavarty , Arjan van de Ven , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: 2.6.xx: dirty pages never being sync'd to disk? References: <4378ADB2.7040905@rtr.ca> <1131982550.2821.41.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4378B1FB.1060201@rtr.ca> <1131987398.24066.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4378C626.4030107@rtr.ca> In-Reply-To: <4378C626.4030107@rtr.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 614 Lines: 16 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. If the copy is done from uncached files, then the data usually does not get committed to disk until I "sync" or run the posix_fadvise test program on it. Anyone else seeing this? 2.6.15-rc1, x86, 2GB - 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/