Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:45:35 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, raybry@sgi.com, mort@wildopensource.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hilgeman@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] A method for clearing out page cache
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Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote:
>
>  As Martin wrote, when he submitted this patch:
>  > The motivation for this patch is for setting up High Performance
>  > Computing jobs, where initial memory placement is very important to
>  > overall performance.
> 
>  Any left over cache is wrong, for this situation.

So...  Cannot the applicaiton remove all its pagecache with posix_fadvise()
prior to exitting?
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