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From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
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Subject: Re: Memory released after running rsync
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gamo@telecable.es [2015-11-30 07:16:25+01] wrote:

> El 30/11/15 a las 00:33, Pascal Hambourg escribi=F3:
>> And useless. /proc/sys/vm/drop_cache is already available.
>
> Ok, the 'file' is 'drop_caches' in my version.

To release cached memory (as root):

	sync; echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

See: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt

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