Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423618AbWJaUja (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:39:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423620AbWJaUja (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:39:30 -0500 Received: from dspnet.fr.eu.org ([213.186.44.138]:5646 "EHLO dspnet.fr.eu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423618AbWJaUj3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:39:29 -0500 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:39:28 +0100 From: Olivier Galibert To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel Cc: "Hack inc." Subject: Re: Cooling the cache Message-ID: <20061031203928.GA34717@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Mail-Followup-To: Olivier Galibert , =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel , "Hack inc." References: <20061031171204.GA8230@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <20061031172310.GA30739@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20061031172310.GA30739@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 689 Lines: 18 On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 06:23:10PM +0100, J?rn 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/