>    Have I misinterpreted these statistics?
> 
> those are not pages those are KB.  filesystem cache is not reported
> in these figures - you have about 114MB of ram used by non cache and
> 53MB ram free.  i imagine that most of the free ram (50+MB) came from
> the mkisofs process itself exiting -- how large did *it* get?

That would make sense, mkisofs can get sizeable.

My guts do tell me something isn't quite right somewhere,
probably something like all the disk inode writes to update the
file access time being done synchronously, rather than lazily.

	David

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