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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: "Gu, Zhongshu" <gzs715@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to drop cache of guest os?
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:17:49 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C4DB52D.8000103@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTine3oU=NuyVhdz9_CS66x=hd1PgvE=bGa+TiA+H@mail.gmail.com>

  On 07/26/2010 07:15 PM, Gu, Zhongshu wrote:
> Hi all:
>          Is there any possibility to drop caches of guest os from vmm
> level. We know that in linux, we can echo 3 to
> /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches to do this work. Can we controlled it thru
> kvm to drop the cached pages?

ssh guest bash -c 'echo 3 > proc/sys/vm/drop_caches'

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


      reply	other threads:[~2010-07-26 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-26 16:15 how to drop cache of guest os? Gu, Zhongshu
2010-07-26 16:17 ` Avi Kivity [this message]

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