On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 at 11:33, tytso@xxxxxxx wrote: > caches, though; if you are going to measure read as well as writes, > then you'll probably want to do something like "echo 3 > > /proc/sys/vm/drop-caches". Thanks for the hint, I could find sys/vm/drop-caches documented in Documentation/ but it's good to know there's a way to flush all these caces via this knob. Maybe I should add this to those "genric" tests to be more comparable to the other benchmarks. Christian. -- BOFH excuse #210: We didn't pay the Internet bill and it's been cut off. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users