Re: how to turn off, or to clear read cache?
From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Wed Aug 20 2003 - 12:25:02 EST
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 06:57:15PM +0200, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha <luciano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > Will it clear the cache?
>
> It will probably clear some cache to make room for cache from hda.
>
> perl -e '@f[0..100000000]=0'
>
> will do it faster.
Using fillmem will do it better :)
Jeff
/* fillmem.c usage: "fillmem <number-of-megabytes>" */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <string.h>
#define MEGS 140 /* default; override on command line */
#define MEG (1024 * 1024)
int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
void **data;
int i, r;
size_t megs = MEGS;
if ((argc >= 2) && (atoi(argv[1]) > 0))
megs = atoi(argv[1]);
data = malloc (megs * sizeof (void*));
if (!data) abort();
memset (data, 0, megs * sizeof (void*));
srand(time(NULL));
for (i = 0; i < megs; i++) {
data[i] = malloc(MEG);
memset (data[i], i, MEG);
printf("malloc/memset %03d/%03lu\n", i+1, megs);
}
for (i = megs - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
r = rand() % 200;
memset (data[i], r, MEG);
printf("memset #2 %03d/%03lu = %d\n", i+1, megs, r);
}
printf("done\n");
return 0;
}
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