Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [PATCH] arch speedups on big trees

[Miles Bader]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 10:11:36AM -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Anyone know of a utility that will clean out your cache?  Or would "grep
> -r foo /" be the way to go?

If you mean linux's in-memory disk cache, I just used a little program
that malloced an enormous block of memory and started touching pages until
it died (well actually I had some sort of command-line parameter that told
it how many hundreds of megabytes to touch, but often it died before it
got there)...  that flushes things _real good_.  :-)

-Miles
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