On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 06:44:20PM +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote: >Ian West wrote: >> dd if=/dev/zero bs=32768 of=junkfile count=100000 seems to do it quite >> reliably on all the boxes I have tested ? > >I am unable to reproduce this on 7.0.
I can't reproduce it on 6.3-PRERELEASE/amd64 with 1GB RAM.
vmstat -s;dd if=/dev/zero bs=32768 of=junkfile count=100000;vmstat -s
shows the following changes:
2 swap pager pageins
2 swap pager pages paged in
4 swap pager pageouts
5 swap pager pages paged out
24 vnode pager pageins
78 vnode pager pages paged in
0 vnode pager pageouts
0 vnode pager pages paged out
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Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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