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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:51:18 +0000
From: Paul Evans <paul@mxtelecom.com>
To: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: Slow long-term increase in dirty pages
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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.
>=20
> Usage:
>         # run patched kernel
>         modprobe filecache
>         cat /proc/filecache
>=20
> 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,

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