From: mru@users.sourceforge.net (Måns Rullgård)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to turn off, or to clear read cache?
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:28:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1xhe4cb5nh.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030820171713.GA21822@gtf.org
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:
>> > Will it clear the cache?
>>
>> It will probably clear some cache to make room for cache from hda.
>>
>> perl -e '@f[0..100000000]=0'
>>
>> will do it faster.
>
> Using fillmem will do it better :)
[39 lines of C code]
If you already have that piece of code, of course.
--
Måns Rullgård You can write faster programs in C, but
mru@users.sf.net you can write programs faster in Perl.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-20 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-20 13:22 how to turn off, or to clear read cache? John Bradford
2003-08-20 13:23 ` Sergey Spiridonov
2003-08-20 13:31 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-08-20 16:49 ` Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha
2003-08-20 16:57 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-08-20 17:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-20 17:28 ` Måns Rullgård [this message]
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[not found] ` <mCi4.5Kq.3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-08-21 10:01 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
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2003-08-20 11:52 Sergey Spiridonov
2003-08-20 12:30 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-08-20 13:11 ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-08-20 14:30 ` Sergey Spiridonov
2003-08-20 22:46 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-20 22:52 ` Mike Fedyk
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