[lug] inhibit caching

Steve Sullivan SteveSullivan
Mon Jun 21 00:56:10 MDT 2004


Often I need to run performance tests on a disk,
but the file caching of Linux gets in the way.

Is there a way to inhibit caching for a file
or disk, so when the data are read they truly
come from disk instead of from cache?

Thanks,

Steve Sullivan



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