Can small writes generate a lot of faults?

[Mulyadi Santosa]

Hi :)

On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 4:42 AM, Daniel Hilst Selli
<danielhilst at gmail.com> wrote:
> AFAIK, major page faults are generated when data that is not yet present
> on RAM is loaded from disk, but in this case data is being write do
> disk, I can't
> see how writes can generate faults, but still, it seems that is
> happening, ... !?
>
> Is that possible?

I never pay close attention on these kind of stuffs, but IMHO there is
a chance that this "write" is actually "update".

So it is kind of "read data- update data - flush data" cycle. Close
enough to graph generation behaviour, don't you think...

CMIIW...


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