From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andrzej-kardas@o2.pl (Andrzej Kardas) Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:18:59 +0100 Subject: release used memory In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4D7BE343.7040002@o2.pl> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20110312/3bb9b725/attachment.html