[Gllug] Temporary bash corruption

[Jonathan Dye]

Pete Ryland wrote:
> 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?

I thought that just wrote the buffers to disk rather than re-read existing
buffers from disk?

> Pete

JD


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