Re: how to turn off, or to clear read cache?

[Måns Rullgård]

Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> 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 :)

[39 lines of C code]

If you already have that piece of code, of course.

-- 
Måns Rullgård            You can write faster programs in C, but
mru@xxxxxxxxxxxx         you can write programs faster in Perl. 

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