On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:28:56PM -0700, Scott Carey wrote:
> Google > “linux drop_caches” first result:
> http://www.linuxinsight.com/proc_sys_vm_drop_caches.html
> To be sure a test is going to disk and not file system cache for everything 
> in linux, run:
> ‘sync; cat 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches’

well. the url you showed tells to do: echo 3 > ...
cat 3 is "slightly" different.

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depesz

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