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SubjectRe: [PATCH/RFC] A method for clearing out page cache
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote:
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> As Martin wrote, when he submitted this patch:
> > The motivation for this patch is for setting up High Performance
> > Computing jobs, where initial memory placement is very important to
> > overall performance.
>
> Any left over cache is wrong, for this situation.

So... Cannot the applicaiton remove all its pagecache with posix_fadvise()
prior to exitting?
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