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Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:58:02 -0700
From: "Gordon Farquharson" <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com>
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On 12/27/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

> That's just 400kB!
>
> There's no way you should see corruption with that kind of value. It
> should all stay solidly in the cache.

100kB and 200kB files always succeed on the ARM system. 400kB and
larger always seem to fail.

Does the following help interpret the results on ARM at all ?

$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         30000      23620       6380          0        808      15676
-/+ buffers/cache:       7136      22864
Swap:        88316       3664      84652

Gordon

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Gordon Farquharson