Re: drop_caches ...

[Wu Fengguang]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 03:45:28PM +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 09:36:03PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> >           size = file size in bytes
> >         cached = cached pages
> > 
> > So it's normal that (size > cached).
> 
> I guess, the question was how it can happen that (cached > size).

Ah, because cached size is rounded up to page boundaries,
so a 1K sized file will have 4K cached size.

Thanks,
Fengguang

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