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May 9, 2008, 3:11 PM
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El Fri, 09 May 2008 21:49:47 +0000
Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel[at]nn7.de> escribió:
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to perform some benchmarks that involve reading the same big
> file a couple of times from disk. However I would want to make sure that
> the file is not buffered/cached by the kernel when I read the file a
> second/third/etc time.
>
> Is there a way (except rebooting/unmounting the disk) to clear the
> buffers?
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches IIRC
>
> Thanks,
> Soeren
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