[...] > I thought of simply opening and writing to the file to dirty it's > pages, but there no guarantee that pdflush will have already written > the dirty pages to disk -pretty sure it depends on all the dirty ratio > and intervals. > > Does anybody know of a system call that will 'knock' the file out of > file cache? Can madvise or fadvise do this?
Does this help http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/linux-pdflush.htm ? (Getting hold of procfs and doing it in Python?) Also, are you looking for sync(2) http://linux.die.net/man/2/sync? [...] -- Regards, Ishwor Gurung -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
