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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
To: "Andreas Grimm" <agrimm61@gmail.com>
Cc: "KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VM - a plenty of inactive memory
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:56:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87myo2redk.fsf@saeurebad.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cf40c6a90804091108v522bd757nb81e9f97fdc132fc@mail.gmail.com> (Andreas Grimm's message of "Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:08:19 +0200")

Hi,

"Andreas Grimm" <agrimm61@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Kosaki,
>
>>  # echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
>>
> that frees exactly the 1,5Gigs in the buffers and the cache. Inactive
> memory is still at 25GB.
> Any other hint?

Could you supply the rest of /proc/meminfo?

	Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-09 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-09  9:13 VM - a plenty of inactive memory Andreas Grimm
2008-04-09 13:10 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-04-09 13:57   ` Andreas Grimm
2008-04-09 14:15     ` Dan Noe
2008-04-09 15:01     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-04-09 16:28       ` Andreas Grimm
2008-04-09 18:08       ` Andreas Grimm
2008-04-09 19:56         ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2008-04-09 20:05           ` Andreas Grimm
2008-04-11 17:55     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-11 13:13   ` Andreas Grimm
2008-04-11 14:34     ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
     [not found] <fa.+S2mzTenrJ0RtdxGRDJkwIoNteA@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.TNkasVGEvLf8IqduH2+YXFyYR1w@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]   ` <fa.R/QDJx+PTjNDKcqKW25clMhQ6tg@ifi.uio.no>
2008-04-09 14:32     ` Robert Hancock

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