> I asked around and people believe the cache is on the order of a few GB and > the test ran I was intentionally large enough to overshadow any cache > effects, running for about a minute and doing 100K 1K file creates. The > disk write data was close to a sustained 475MB/sec and would have easily > filled the cache in the first handful of seconds which would have produced > enough backpressure to slow down the write rate which it never did. If a limited number of blocks gets written over and over, you won't ever fill the cache. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs