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Re: [PLUG] purposly emptying the file cache?
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On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 02:51:37PM -0400, Kyle R . Burton wrote:
> Is there a way to flush the file cache? bdflush [update] seems to be a
> utility that you can use to manualy cause a flush of dirty buffers
> (sync) to disk, but [from what I've read] it doens't sound like you can
> use it to empty the [read] file cache.
How 'bout just reading sizeof(<buffer cache>) of garbage? (/dev/zero
might be useful to you... or /dev/urandom for that matter.)
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~ g r @ eclipsed.net
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