In article <37651842.330557.1449661633526.javamail.ngm...@webmail09.arcor-online.net>, Carsten Kunze <[email protected]> wrote: >Brett Lymn <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Try using msync with the invalidate option, that should push the pages >> out to disk. > >That works, thank you! > >The msync does now block and hence slow down the application, but the >sync is an advantage in the special case I use it. >But in general a sync should not be mandatory (for performance reasons). >So isn't it a kernel bug that mtime is updated when pages are written >back?
How often should it be updated? christos
