Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751204AbVKNRva (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:51:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751213AbVKNRva (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:51:30 -0500 Received: from cpu1185.adsl.bellglobal.com ([207.236.110.166]:64428 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751204AbVKNRva (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:51:30 -0500 Message-ID: <4378CE9B.9020802@rtr.ca> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:51:23 -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> <4378CD12.9010606@rtr.ca> In-Reply-To: <4378CD12.9010606@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: 547 Lines: 14 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/