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dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1M count=1000 of=/tmp/bigfile
# Note! This will cause your computer to slow down while it puts
# all files it's accessing back in memory
sudo sync
sudo sh -c 'echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches'
sleep 5
dd if=/tmp/bigfile bs=1M of=/dev/null
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