Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jan 2008 15:05:27 -0800 (PST) | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/6] syslets: add generic syslets infrastructure |
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On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Try this with and without a "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" in > between. Both are real and relevant usage cases, I think.
Side note, for me the difference on my home directory for the cached vs uncached case is 5 seconds vs 5 minutes. I like the 5 sec, I'd like to improve on that 5 min.
Is this test a bit *too* simplistic? Probably. But I think that if we can come up with an interface that works ok for that test, it at least signals *something*.
Linus
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