On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 01:50:28PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > Boris then noted > (http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1210.3/00659.html) > that he is using drop_caches to make s2ram faster but as others noted > this just adds the overhead to the resume path so it might work only > for certain use cases so a user space solution is more appropriate and > Boris' use case really sounds valid. FWIW, I still use it. :-) And we recently validated anew, a good use case for drop_caches which was actually already mentioned - repeatable benchmark runs. In this case, we show how *not* to use it in those benchmark runs. :) http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=137276096923390 Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. -- -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>