Also, something odd: say I have a big file /tmp/foo $ cat /tmp/foo > /dev/null ... "inactive" grows in vmstat, takes some time... $ cat /tmp/foo > /dev/null takes almost no time since it's all cached. $ find /var/log -printf "" ... "inactive" falls down to the original value $ cat /tmp/foo > /dev/null ... "inactive" grows in vmstat again, takes some time...
It looks like resolving directories/files entries somehow flushes out the page cache. There actually doesn't seem to be any caching for directories/files: find /var/log always reads from the disk (the led flashes). Samuel _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
