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* Cooling the cache
@ 2006-10-31 17:12 Olivier Galibert
  2006-10-31 17:23 ` Jörn Engel
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Olivier Galibert @ 2006-10-31 17:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Hack inc.

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 ;-)

  OG.


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* Re: Cooling the cache
  2006-10-31 17:12 Cooling the cache Olivier Galibert
@ 2006-10-31 17:23 ` Jörn Engel
  2006-10-31 20:39   ` Olivier Galibert
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jörn Engel @ 2006-10-31 17:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Olivier Galibert, Hack inc.

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

Jörn

-- 
Joern's library part 9:
http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/Publications/Gus/TwelveWays.html

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* Re: Cooling the cache
  2006-10-31 17:23 ` Jörn Engel
@ 2006-10-31 20:39   ` Olivier Galibert
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Olivier Galibert @ 2006-10-31 20:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jörn Engel; +Cc: Hack inc.

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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