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From: Paul Evans <paul@mxtelecom.com>
To: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Slow long-term increase in dirty pages
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:51:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090319145118.32c5bfb0@nacelle.mxtelecom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090319044751.GA12918@localhost>

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On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:47:51 +0800
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> wrote:

> The attached filecache patch shall help identify the dirty
> files/pages.
> 
> Usage:
>         # run patched kernel
>         modprobe filecache
>         cat /proc/filecache
> 
> The dirty files will have the 'D' flag in its "state" field.

Wow, that looks very useful. I'll have a play with it and see if it
yields anything of interest.

Thanks,

-- 
Paul Evans <paul@mxtelecom.com>
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      reply	other threads:[~2009-03-19 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-18 14:53 Slow long-term increase in dirty pages Paul Evans
2009-03-19  4:47 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-19 14:51   ` Paul Evans [this message]

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