On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 at 11:33, [email protected] wrote:
> caches, though; if you are going to measure read as well as writes,
> then you'll probably want to do something like "echo 3 >
> /proc/sys/vm/drop-caches".
Thanks for the hint, I could find sys/vm/drop-caches documented in
Documentation/ but it's good to know there's a way to flush all these
caces via this knob. Maybe I should add this to those "genric" tests to be
more comparable to the other benchmarks.
Christian.
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On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 at 10:56, Christian Kujau wrote:
> Thanks for the hint, I could find sys/vm/drop-caches documented in
------------------------------^ not, was what I meant to say,
but it's all there, as "drop_caches" in Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
Christian.
> Documentation/ but it's good to know there's a way to flush all these
> caces via this knob. Maybe I should add this to those "genric" tests to be
> more comparable to the other benchmarks.
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