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Re: git performance

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Oct 24, 2008, 17:53 UTC
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<alpine.LFD.2.00.0810241050310.3287@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
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On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> Side note: on Linux, it is much easier to clear the cache via
> 
>   echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
Use "echo 3" instead of "1".

It's actually a bitmask, with bit 0 being "data" (pagecache) and bit 1 being "metadata" (inodes and directory caches).

And since git (or any SCM) is very metadata-intensive, you really should make sure to drop metadata too, otherwise your caches won't be really very cold at all.

(But it obviously depends on the operation you're testing - some are more about the inodes and directories, others are about file data access).

			Linus
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