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From: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
To: "N. Harake" <hussein@cscs.ch>
Cc: "fio@vger.kernel.org" <fio@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: memory caching
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:20:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D7FC9F2.9060300@fusionio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C9A4E18A.10660%hussein@cscs.ch>

On 2011-03-15 09:27, N. Harake wrote:
> 
> I would like to disable completely the caching in memory, trying to
> measure real throughput read/write and iops on filesystem (not raw
> access).  Other than direct=1 is there any flag I could use to obtain
> such complete bypass caching?

direct=1 is the one to use, this controls whether you go through the
page cache or not.

-- 
Jens Axboe


      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-15 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-15  8:27 memory caching N. Harake
2011-03-15 12:36 ` N. Harake
2011-03-15 20:28   ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-15 20:46     ` N. Harake
2011-03-15 20:55       ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-15 20:54     ` N. Harake
2011-03-15 20:56       ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-15 20:20 ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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