Re: 2.6.xx: dirty pages never being sync'd to disk?

[Mark Lord]

Mark Lord wrote:
> Another intriguing observation:
>
> If I do my file copy test from files that are already cached,
> then the data usually gets committed to disk more or less
> right away.

And even in that case, /proc/meminfo still shows the memory
as "Dirty", until a "sync" is done.  Why is that?
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