On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 09:36:34 -0600, James Melin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There is a program in SLES8 (was also in SLES7) called flushb that appears > to be useful for flushing the memory buffers on a per disk device basis. The --help suggests this is a copy of the blockdev program. I am not sure why you would want to do this. As far as I understand the discussions, the thing you're flushing is directories etc. You are not planning to change the contents of a R/O disk are you? The best approach imho is to look at Collaborative Memory Management (since May 2004 in SuSE SLES 8). This way you can tell Linux to drop some of the cached data according to the LRU statistics it kept. If you push hard enough, it causes Linux to also drop shared libraries and binaries that you need afterwards. When you hold the binaries in a DCSS using xip2fs that is mostly overcome. Rob -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
