> This may just be a typo, but if you really did create write (dirty) > block device cache by writing the pg_dump file somewhere, then that > is what it's supposed to do ;) The pgdump was across the network. So the only caching on the machine was read caching. > Read cache of course does not need to be flushed and can simply be > dumped when the memory is needed, and so Linux will keep more or > less unlimited amounts of read cache until it needs the memory for > something else .... Right, that's the normal behavior. Except not on this machine. --Josh -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
