Re: page cache query

[Nagaprabhanjan Bellari <nagp.knb@xxxxxxxxx>]

One can also write do a `echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_cache` to purge the page cache.

 

-nagp

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Joel Fernandes <agnel.joel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My question is why the cache is growing even after O_SYNC flag? Even
> fsync does not help. But deleting file freeing the cache.
>

Try O_DIRECT if you want to bypass the page cache.

-Joel

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