Re: [Jfs-discussion] benchmark results

[Christian Kujau <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 at 11:33, tytso@xxxxxxx 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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