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Subject: Re: bdflush flushing memory mapped pages.
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Keith Ansell <keitha@edp.fastfreenet.com>
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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