On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:26:51AM +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 11:12 -0500, Steve Bergman wrote: > > Are you saying that with XFS there is no periodic > > flushing mechanism at all? And that unless there's an > > fsync/fdatasync/sync or the memory needs to be reclaimed, that it can > > sit in the page cache forever? > > I read the later responses to this and they seemed to say that the data > in the page cache should be written to the disk periodically. I am not > meaning to hijack the thread. I just have a question directly related to > this point. > > I have an application that is streaming data to an XFS disk at a > sustained 25 MB/sec. This is well below what the hardware supports. The > application does fopen/fwrite/fclose (no active flushing or syncing). fadvise(DONTNEED) Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
