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On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 10:56:34PM -0400, Ashwin Krishna Patil wrote: > > Is there any easy way to reinit server cache without rebooting the server > or wiping volumes? I'm taking a whole bunch of "cold cache" transfer > measurements. Thanks. I know venus -init wipes client cache. The server really isn't a cache, and doesn't use one. If you want to wipe a server you'll lose the volumes because the file metadata is stored along with the volume information in RVM. Remove the contents of /vicepa, and reinitialize the RVM log and data. Then recreate all volumes and repopulate them with the mountpoints. The cold caching effect might normally happen on low memory machines. When a server has enough memory all metadata is already mapped into memory. To achieve the effects of a server that needs to go back to swap for the metadata, run a program that agressively allocates and uses large amounts of memory so that the server is pushed into swap. JanReceived on 2000-07-26 08:49:07