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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
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Subject: Re: VM - a plenty of inactive memory
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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