Re: [PATCH] Add ability to dump mapped pages with /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

2007-10-02 Thread Nick Piggin
On Monday 01 October 2007 04:03, Soeren Sandmann wrote: > This patch adds the ability to drop mapped pages with > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. This is useful to get repeatable > measurements of startup time for applications. > > Without it, pages that are mapped in already-running applications will >

Re: [PATCH] Add ability to dump mapped pages with /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

2007-09-30 Thread Dave Jones
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 08:03:51PM +0200, Soeren Sandmann wrote: > This patch adds the ability to drop mapped pages with > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. This is useful to get repeatable > measurements of startup time for applications. > > Without it, pages that are mapped in already-running appl

[PATCH] Add ability to dump mapped pages with /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

2007-09-30 Thread Soeren Sandmann
This patch adds the ability to drop mapped pages with /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. This is useful to get repeatable measurements of startup time for applications. Without it, pages that are mapped in already-running applications will not get dropped, so the time measured will not be a true cold-cach