fincore

Discover which parts of a file are cached by the OS.

This command uses the mincore() system call on linux to grab a mapping of cached pages. Currently this done with a single mincore() call and requires 1-byte for each 4KiB page. For very large files, this may require several MiBs or more of memory. For a 1TB file this is 256MiB, for instance.

Usage

Usage: dbsake fincore [OPTIONS] [PATHS]...

  Report cached pages for a file.

Options:
  -v, --verbose
  -?, --help     Show this message and exit.

Example

# dbsake fincore /var/lib/mysql/ibdata1
/var/lib/mysql/ibdata1: total_pages=6656 cached=0 percent=0.00
# cat /var/lib/mysql/ibdata1 > /dev/null
# dbsake fincore /var/lib/mysql/ibdata1
/var/lib/mysql/ibdata1: total_pages=6656 cached=6656 percent=100.00

Options

--verbose

Print each cached page number that is cached.

path [path...]

Path(s) to check for cached pages