Hey Owen, all,

I find this one handy if you have root access:

http://linux-mm.org/Drop_Caches

echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

Drops the pagecache, dentries, and inodes.  Without this, you can still get 
caching effects doing the normal "read and write large files" if the linux 
pagecache outsmarts you (and I don't know about you, but it often outsmarts 
me...).

Brian

On Jun 14, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Owen O'Malley wrote:

> Indeed. On the terasort benchmark, I had to run intermediate jobs that
> were larger than ram on the cluster to ensure that the data was not
> coming from the file cache.
> 
> -- Owen

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