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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:05:51 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.18pre4aa1
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Hi!

> > I've also to say I always mke2fs first when I run my benchmarks,
> 
> Yes, and it would be nice if we had an operation to squeeze cache down to
> its minimum size (whatever that means) just for running benchmarks
> accurately without rebooting.

Take a look at swsusp -- it frees as much memory as possible before
doing anything.
								Pavel 
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