From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail191.messagelabs.com (mail191.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1A4C6B00C7 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 09:01:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 15:01:25 +0100 From: Lukas Hejtmanek Subject: Re: drop_caches ... Message-ID: <20090305140125.GD646@ics.muni.cz> References: <200903041057.34072.M4rkusXXL@web.de> <200903041947.41542.M4rkusXXL@web.de> <20090305004850.GA6045@localhost> <200903051255.35407.M4rkusXXL@web.de> <20090305133603.GA22442@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20090305133603.GA22442@localhost> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Wu Fengguang Cc: Markus , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Zdenek Kabelac , "linux-mm@kvack.org" List-ID: On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 09:36:03PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: > > filesize and "cached" the amount of the file being in cache (why can > > this be bigger than the file?!). > > size = file size in bytes > cached = cached pages > > So it's normal that (size > cached). and one more thing. It seems that at least in the version of filecache I have, the size and cached are in kB rather than in B. -- Luka1 Hejtmanek -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org