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Re: Memory released after running rsync

From Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Memory released after running rsync
Date 2015-12-01 18:04 +0200
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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 escribió:
>> 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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Memory released after running rsync gamo <gamo@telecable.es> - 2015-11-29 14:51 +0100
  Re: Memory released after running rsync William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-11-29 20:12 +0000
    Re: Memory released after running rsync gamo <gamo@telecable.es> - 2015-11-29 21:56 +0100
      Re: Memory released after running rsync William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-11-29 21:16 +0000
        Re: Memory released after running rsync gamo <gamo@telecable.es> - 2015-11-29 23:52 +0100
      Re: Memory released after running rsync Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-11-30 00:33 +0100
        Re: Memory released after running rsync gamo <gamo@telecable.es> - 2015-11-30 07:16 +0100
          Re: Memory released after running rsync Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2015-12-01 18:04 +0200
            Re: Memory released after running rsync gamo <gamo@telecable.es> - 2015-12-01 23:49 +0100
  Re: Memory released after running rsync Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2015-11-29 18:36 -0800

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