From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266487AbUG0TcM (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:32:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266513AbUG0TcM (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:32:12 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:36873 "EHLO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266487AbUG0TcI (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:32:08 -0400 Message-ID: <4106B448.2010308@techsource.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:00:08 -0400 From: Timothy Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Rutt CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: clearing filesystem cache for I/O benchmarks References: <87vfgeuyf5.fsf@osu.edu> <20040726002524.2ade65c3.akpm@osdl.org> <87pt6iq5u2.fsf@osu.edu> <20040726234005.597a94db.akpm@osdl.org> <871xixpdky.fsf@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <871xixpdky.fsf@osu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Benjamin Rutt wrote: > Andrew Morton writes: > > >>(Please don't remove people from the email recipient list when doing kernel >>work.) > > > Sorry, I'm reading via gmane and my newsreader doesn't make it > straightforward to do so. But I'll do it manually for you. I haven't been paying attention, and I don't know if anyone's already suggested this, but going on the title, have you considered running the same benchmark more than once and just throwing away the first result?