Re: drop_caches ...

[Wu Fengguang]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 04:01:25PM +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> 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.

Ah sorry for the confusion, it is in KB: DIV_ROUND_UP(size, 1024).
It may be better to simply use bytes though.

Thanks,
Fengguang

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