grep dirty /proc/vmstat; for i in $( echo ls > /proc/filecache; cat /proc/filecache | awk '{ if ($6 ~ /[D]/) print $0 }' | awk '{if ($12 ~ /database/) print $12}' ); do echo -n "$i dirty: "; echo /var/lib/mysql/$i > /proc/filecache; cat /proc/filecache | grep D | wc -l; done; echo ls > /proc/filecache; cat /proc/filecache | awk '{ if ($6 ~ /[D]/) print $0 }' nr_dirty 494902 /database/tbltable3.MYD dirty: 58101 /database/tbltable3.MYI dirty: 146806 /database/tbltable4.MYD dirty: 85737 /database/tbltable4.MYI dirty: 101299 /database/tbltable1.MYI dirty: 1727 /database/tbltable5.MYD dirty: 27189 /database/tbltable5.MYI dirty: 16847 /database/tbltable2.MYI dirty: 3 /database/tbltable2.MYD dirty: 3 /database/tbltable1.MYD dirty: 4 0 5242880 1072 0 0 D- 6 0 0 mount 00:02(bdev) (fd:02) 0 2097152 884 0 0 D- 6 0 0 mount 00:02(bdev) (fd:03) 0 5242880 5532 0 0 D- 23 0 0 mount 00:02(bdev) (fd:01) 196632 1 4 100 1 D- 5 1 60 mysqld fd:01(dm-1) /run/mysqld/relay-log.info 196634 306501 306504 100 1 D- 15 1 60 mysqld fd:01(dm-1) /run/mysqld/mysqld-relay-bin.000002 49163 466 48 10 1 D- 12 1 0 syslog-ng fd:02(dm-2) /messages 23 1 4 100 0 D- 11 104 0 bash fd:03(dm-3) /differenceWithLastTime_dm-3 22 1 4 100 0 D- 11 104 0 bash fd:03(dm-3) /differenceWithLastTime_dm-2 21 1 4 100 0 D- 11 104 0 bash fd:03(dm-3) /differenceWithLastTime_dm-1 20 1 4 100 0 D- 11 104 0 bash fd:03(dm-3) /differenceWithLastTime_dm-0 19 1 4 100 0 D- 11 104 0 bash fd:03(dm-3) /differenceWithLastTime_sdb1 18 1 4 100 0 D- 12 104 0 bash fd:03(dm-3) /differenceWithLastTime_sda3 17 1 4 100 0 D- 12 104 0 bash fd:03(dm-3) /differenceWithLastTime_sda2 16 1 4 100 0 D- 12 104 0 bash fd:03(dm-3) /differenceWithLastTime_sda1 14 1 4 100 0 D- 12 104 0 sh fd:03(dm-3) /netdev_old 15 1 4 100 0 D- 12 104 0 perl fd:03(dm-3) /.oldnetstat 13 1 4 100 0 D- 12 520 0 sh fd:03(dm-3) /netdev_new 5865478 3778125 251852 6 2 D- 10 12 0 du 08:11(sdb1) /database/tbltable3.MYD 5865487 12871243 1132552 8 1 D- 10 10 0 du 08:11(sdb1) /database/tbltable3.MYI 5865475 21707331 503688 2 2 D- 10 11 0 du 08:11(sdb1) /database/tbltable4.MYD 5865495 16414241 909488 5 1 D- 10 10 0 du 08:11(sdb1) /database/tbltable4.MYI 11 1 4 100 1 D- 15 1 60 mysqld 08:11(sdb1) /master.info 5865477 150818 51952 34 1 D- 15 10 0 du 08:11(sdb1) /database/tbltable1.MYI 5865479 495759 131276 26 1 D- 15 10 0 du 08:11(sdb1) /database/tbltable5.MYD 5865497 903791 276828 30 1 D- 15 10 0 du 08:11(sdb1) /database/tbltable5.MYI 5865499 118388 88 0 1 D- 17 10 0 du 08:11(sdb1) /database/tbltable2.MYI 5865480 325977 120 0 1 D- 17 10 0 du 08:11(sdb1) /database/tbltable2.MYD 5865489 78503 3300 4 2 D- 18 10 0 du 08:11(sdb1) /database/tbltable1.MYD 175 1 4 100 1 D- 3100 1161 0 udevd 00:0e(tmpfs) /.udev/uevent_seqnum