Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 03 Aug 1999 10:01:20 +0200 | From | Marnix Coppens <> | Subject | Re: Questions regarding Linux swapping. |
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Robert de Bath <http://poboxes.com/rdebath> wrote: > >What I used to do was force everything out just after boot and let the >kernel page it back in: > >dd bs=32768k count=1 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null > >but that's been optimised away now, now you have to use: > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >cat /dev/zero | dd ibs=1k count=32768 obs=32768k of=/dev/null > #include "confession_of_ignorance.h"
What exactly do you mean by that? Is it some sort of buffer/cache change in the latest kernels or something?
Cheers,
Marnix Coppens
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