Why? Do you evaluate Unix performance with and without file buffers?

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On Aug 19, 2015, at 5:00 PM, Nagasharath <sharathrayap...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Trying to evaluate the performance of queries with and without cache
> 
> 
> 
>> On 18-Aug-2015, at 11:30 am, Yonik Seeley <ysee...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:23 PM, naga sharathrayapati
>> <sharathrayap...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is it possible to clear the cache through query?
>>> 
>>> I need this for performance valuation.
>> 
>> No, but you can prevent a query from being cached:
>> q={!cache=false}my query
>> 
>> What are you trying to test the performance of exactly?
>> If you think queries will be highly unique, the best way of testing is
>> to make your test queries highly unique (for example, adding a random
>> number in the mix) so that the hit rate on the query cache won't be
>> unrealistically high.
>> 
>> -Yonik

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