[Gllug] Temporary bash corruption

Pete Ryland pdr at pdr.cx
Mon Oct 14 12:45:36 UTC 2002


On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 02:19:43 +0100, Jonathan Dye wrote:
> That's about what I guessed at really but couldn't see a way of finding
> out for sure.  I ran memtest about a month ago (just for the hell of it)
> and came up with nothing but i'll give it another run tonight.
> 
> Is there a way of forcing the caches to be dropped and the disk to be
> re-read?  Maybe I could use up all available memory and wait for the cache
> to be dropped to reclaim some more memory.  Thing is I have to stop before
> I really do use it ALL up.

sync?

Pete

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