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SubjectRe: [PATCH/RFC] A method for clearing out page cache

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 10:45:35AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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?

I think Paul's referring to pagecache (as well as other caches) that are
on the node from other uses, not necessarily another HPC job that has
recently terminated.

mh

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