Command to flush file system cache to prepare for performance testing?
Sam Tygier
samtygier at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Dec 9 23:23:58 UTC 2008
Martin Olsson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If grep through all files in a directory twice, then the first time takes
> a lot longer because the second run will have most of the files available
> in the "in memory file system cache".
>
> I want to do some basic performance testing for a scenario involving disk I/O.
> I'm wondering if there is a command to purge the file system cache, either
> for a specific directory or file (which would be great) or otherwise purge the
> whole thing.
>
> Basically, to create repeatable perf tests and get consistent results I would
> like to pin down all the "system state" so that any changes in numbers will
> be directly attributable to my code changes.
>
> Does anyone know such a command to flush the file system cache?
>
>
>
> Martin
i think this is what you are after
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
see http://linux-mm.org/Drop_Caches for more info/options
sam tygier
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