From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261543AbVGVJrD (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jul 2005 05:47:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261559AbVGVJrD (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jul 2005 05:47:03 -0400 Received: from [202.133.243.130] ([202.133.243.130]:64008 "EHLO sh.alchip.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261543AbVGVJrC (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jul 2005 05:47:02 -0400 Message-ID: <003401c58ea2$4dfd76f0$5601010a@ashley> From: "Ashley" To: Subject: Kernel cached memory Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:46:58 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="gb2312"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all I've a server with 2 Operton 64bit CPU and 12G memory, and this server is used to run applications which will comsume huge memory, the problem is: when this aplications exits, the free memory of the server is still very low(accroding to the output of "top"), and from the output of command "free", I can see that many GB memory was cached by kernel. Does anyone know how to free the kernel cached memory? thanks in advance. Sincerely, Ashley ------------------------------------------------------ AlChip Technologies, Limited 26F, Huamin Empire Plaza, Suite B-H, 726 West YanAn Road, Shanghai, China 200050 Tel: 86-21-5237-8800 ext.220 Fax: 86-21-5237-8880 http://www.alchip.com ------------------------------------------------------