On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 03:04:57PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Johannes Stezenbach <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Johannes Stezenbach <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Now copying a 700MB file makes "Dirty" go up to 350MB. It then
> > > > slowly decreases to 325MB and stays there.
> > >
> > > It shouldn't. Did you really leave it for long enough?
> > >
> > > If you did, then why does it happen there and not here?
> >
> > Good question. I just repeated the execise, rebooted and
> > copied a 700MB file. After ~30min "Dirty" is down to ~130MB, and
> > continues to decrease very slowly.
> >
> > On my Desktop machine (P4 HT, 1G RAM) "Dirty" goes down near
> > zero after ~30sec, as expected.
>
> Are you using any unusual mount options?
>
> Which filesystem types are online (not that this should affect it...)
$ cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
/dev/root /dev/.static/dev ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
nfsd /proc/fs/nfsd nfsd rw 0 0
$
I found that if I copy a large number of small files (e.g. the linux
source tree), "Dirty" drops back near zero after ~30sec. Only if
I copy large files it won't.
Johannes
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
