release used memory

[Andrzej Kardas]

On 12.03.2011 02:26, Mulyadi Santosa wrote:
>
> What you saw was probably they were not "old" enough to be swapped
> out...thus they stayed.
>
There is possibility to clear the cache manually by typing:

|echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches|

but you don't want probably to do that, the more data in cache the better :)

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regards
Andrzej Kardas
http://www.linux.mynotes.pl



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