On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 09:37 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: I don't want to say it is solved. But with the following I can at least make the system work as intended. The workaround that seems to correct the situation is to run this: while [ 1 ] do echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches sleep 60 done & Obviously a brute-force approach that is really only possible on my system as it does not seem to mess up general usage. The rate of 60 seconds is arbitrary. But each time this is run, the cache has grown to almost 3 GB. I have now asked the question on the XFS mailing list, and if I hear anything interesting, and if anyone here is interested, I will inform here. Thanks to all for all the help. Great list here! -- Roger Oberholtzer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org