Jan Wieck wrote: > Then again, the stats file is only written. There is nothing that > actually forces the blocks out. On a busy system, one individual stats > file will be created, written to, renamed, live for 500ms and be > thrown away by the next stat files rename operation. I would assume > that with a decent filesystem and appropriate OS buffers, none of the > data blocks of most stat files even hit the disk. I must be missing > something. (From someone who is at best semi-informed).. Unless battery-backed cache is available, we are advised to run with fsync enabled. Wouldn't that affect the stats files as well? -- Guy Rouillier ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly