Re: MySQL 4.1.11 innodb cache can't be flushed after restart ?

[Philippe Poelvoorde]

2006/4/7, Charles Q. Shen <qs2005@stripped>:
> The OS used are Mandriva and Fedora.
>
> Can you explain more?
>

I'll make it quick, there is plenty of doc on a web that will explain
this better than I can.
Once you read few things from your hard drive (let's say the index
file for your table), it's kept in memory. Next time you access it
it's directly retrived from memory, not the hard drive, thus low
response time. shutting down MySQL won't clear that cache. If you want
to circumvent that, you need to umount the partition where data and
index are stored.
HIMH

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/tlk/fs/filesystem.html