Re: clearing filesystem cache for I/O benchmarks

[Benjamin Rutt]

Hans Reiser <reiser@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Probably the best you can do is write enough in the course of the test
> that fsync at the end (or data remaining in cache) is insignificant
> noise.  Benchmarks that make fsync or the cache significant
> unintentionally are common and bad.

I assure you, our benchmarks will avoid these common pitfalls.
-- 
Benjamin Rutt

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