> > That latter test - won't that pretty much just read from the page
> cache?
> > 'sync' may well have forced dirty pages to disk but does it actually
> > evict them to?
>
> Basically, the cache is avoided because of the size of the file.
> 6000000 blocks at 8k exceeds the size of RAM in the machine, so it
> *should* miss the cache and hit the disk directly. :)
Doh!
> >
> > Anyway, that is off topic... perhaps ;)
> >
> > Thanks again,
> >
> > Jim
> >
>
> Cheers
>
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