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From: bnr-fos!leibniz!cls@watmath.waterloo.edu (Carol Sullivan)
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Subject: Flushing the cache on the Sun
Keywords: SunOS
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I have been running some benchmark tests on the Sun The tests are for
reads/writes to disk. I try to ensure that the cache is flushed on a read
by alternatley reading from a large file. I have made this alternate file
very large (32,000 Kbytes). I am not convinced that this has any affect
when I am trying to read a file that is 100 - 1000 K.  

If any one can suggest a way of flushing the cache I'd appreciate it.