Re: Slow long-term increase in dirty pages

[Paul Evans]

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

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