On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:21:03PM +0000, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: > On Friday 08 April 2005 06:56, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote: > > I didn't run "du" many times first to get all entries into the > > cache. > > Neither did I. Here's another one to be sure, I never ran du on > this folder before: > > # time du -h --summarize .Mailing\ Lists.Software.Nagios > 56M .Mailing Lists.Software.Nagios > > real 0m0.039s > user 0m0.008s > sys 0m0.031s
Unless that's a very powerful and very idle system I still think that's the cache talking.. Any access to the directory will put parts of it in the cache. Out of curiosity, what filesystem is that directory on? //Peter
