File Read Cache - How to purge?

2007-08-20 Thread Signal
To become part of a larger script that will read through all files on a given drive, I was playing around with reading files and wanted to see if there was an optimum value for a read size on my system. What I noticed is that the file being read is "cached" on subsequent reads. Based on some testi

Re: File Read Cache - How to purge?

2007-08-21 Thread Signal
> What do you mean by so little memory. It (the whole file) is cached by the > operating system totally independent of your program. Please note I already stated it was more than likely by the OS and noted the tests to confirm that. > It (the whole file) is cached by the operating system totally