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From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: "Hack inc." <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Cooling the cache
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:39:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061031203928.GA34717@dspnet.fr.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061031172310.GA30739@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>

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.

      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-31 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-31 17:12 Cooling the cache Olivier Galibert
2006-10-31 17:23 ` Jörn Engel
2006-10-31 20:39   ` Olivier Galibert [this message]

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