Hi, "Mulyadi Santosa" <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi > > On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> It only drops clean stuff. So sync first manually. > > Hm, really? Isn't that also forcing sync? No. See drop_caches_sysctl_handler() calling drop_pagecache() calling __invalidate_mapping_pages(). The latter skips dirty pages and those getting written back currently. Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
