Re: bdflush flushing memory mapped pages.

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
09 Apr 2003 11:39:34 +0100


On Mer, 2003-04-09 at 20:20, Keith Ansell wrote:
> help
>
> My application uses SHARED memory mapping files for file I/O, and we have
> observed
> that Linux does not flush dirty pages to disk until munmap or msync are
> called.

This is correct behaviour

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