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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: how to drop cache of guest os?
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:17:49 +0300
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  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'

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