Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (216 mails)

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 17:47 +0200, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
> As I said, those benchmarks are not very reliable, considering the
> effect of the cache and of the procedure used. Probably we should repeat
> them rebooting everytime or using a tool which allows to measure loading
> times of the applets.

You can do

        echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

to wipe the buffer cache.  This is not as accurate as doing a cold boot,
but it gets pretty close.

See "man 5 proc" for more info.

  Federico

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