[Gllug] Temporary bash corruption

[Andrew Halliwell]

> 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?

Doesn't that just force the write cache to be flushed?
The filesystem caches would probably be unaffected by that... I'd think.

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