Hi Experts, Need assistance on this Customer has this query "If there is a way to flush ARC for filebench runs without rebooting the system" He is running firmware 2010.02.09.0.2,1-1.13 on the NAS 7410 Please cc me also in the reply regards -- ===============================================Johnson Thomas Technical Support Engineer Sun Solution Centre- APAC Global Customer Services, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Email- Johnson.Thomas at Sun.COM Toll Free /Hotline: Australia:1800 555 786 New Zealand:0800 275 786 Singapore:1800 339 2786 India:1600 425 4786
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 10:55:08PM +0530, Johnson Thomas wrote:> Customer has this query > "If there is a way to flush ARC for filebench runs without rebooting > the system" > > He is running firmware 2010.02.09.0.2,1-1.13 on the NAS 7410In the pre-ZFS world I would have suggested unmounting the filesystem between runs. With ZFS, I doubt that is sufficient. I would suppose a zpool export/import might be enough, but I''d want to test that as well. -- Darren
On Tue, 11 May 2010, A Darren Dunham wrote:> > In the pre-ZFS world I would have suggested unmounting the filesystem > between runs. With ZFS, I doubt that is sufficient. I would suppose a > zpool export/import might be enough, but I''d want to test that as well.Evidence suggests that unmounting the fileysystem is sufficient. For my own little cpio-based "benchmark", umount/mount was sufficient to restore uncached behavior. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/