Re: Cooling the cache



On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 06:23:10PM +0100, Jörn Engel wrote:
On Tue, 31 October 2006 18:12:04 +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:

In order to measure reliably some worst-case latencies, is there a way
to have the system (cleanly) drop as much as possible of its
page/directory cache? Being able to specify which device would be a
plus ;-)

grep -A5 drop_caches Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

Excellent, thanks.

OG.
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