2010/3/2 Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> > On 02/03/10 11:42, Erik Auerswald wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 05:33:38PM -0800, Joey Degges wrote: >> >>> Were you sure to remount your devices to clear the cache before running >>> these tests? While testing this patch early on the cache caused me many >>> incorrect readings. Another approach I took to clear the cache was to >>> fill >>> up all of my RAM with some other process. >>> >> >> To clear the caches you can use >> >> echo 3> /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches >> > > In my testing I left the inode cache alone > for my mechanical disk and used: > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > > For spinning the CPU I just used: > openssl speed > > cheers, > Pádraig. >
Thanks for all of these suggestions. Much more elegant than what I was doing before! Thanks, Joey
