[CentOS] Flushing RAM contents?

[Steven Haigh]

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Steven Haigh

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-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf
Of Scott Ehrlich
Sent: Tuesday, 12 February 2008 7:05 AM
To: centos at centos.org
Subject: [CentOS] Flushing RAM contents?

A user wants to time a command/program/application and ensure the full 
contents of that command's data management has been flushed from RAM/cache 
and saved to disk.  Is there a way to ensure the cache/RAM is flushed to 
disk, or is the flushing a function of the kernel or the application?

This happens to be on a 64-bit Intel system with 64-bit CentOS 5, fully 
patched.   But even if the system were an out-of-box 64-bit install, 
unpatched, would it make a difference?

Thanks.

Scott
 

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