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From: andrzej-kardas@o2.pl (Andrzej Kardas)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: release used memory
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:18:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D7BE343.7040002@o2.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikGm9zGLk_jQmRadYh=xu4eO3MXky3awB1Zd=zt@mail.gmail.com>



On 12.03.2011 02:26, Mulyadi Santosa wrote:
>
> What you saw was probably they were not "old" enough to be swapped
> out...thus they stayed.
>
There is possibility to clear the cache manually by typing:

|echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches|

but you don't want probably to do that, the more data in cache the better :)

--
regards
Andrzej Kardas
http://www.linux.mynotes.pl



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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-11 17:54 release used memory Andreas Leppert
2011-03-11 18:22 ` Rajat Sharma
2011-03-12  1:26 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-03-12 21:18   ` Andrzej Kardas [this message]
2011-03-13  8:32   ` Andreas Leppert

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