[CentOS] Flushing RAM contents?

[Scott Ehrlich]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Steven Haigh wrote:

> $ man sync

Ah, yes.  I haven't used it in a long time.

Actually, the more I've discussed this with the user, the more additional 
details are unfolding, so I'll let them figure out what they want to 
do, and we'll see where that actually leads.

Scott

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> Subject: [CentOS] Flushing RAM contents?
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> 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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