Re: how to turn off, or to clear read cache?

From: Sergey Spiridonov
Date: Wed Aug 20 2003 - 09:37:31 EST


Denis Vlasenko wrote:
umount/mount cycle will do it, as well as intentional OOMing the box
(from non-root account please;)

OOMing doesn't help also, since kernel starts to swap and I have performance degradation after. Swithching off the swap is dangerous in conjunction with OOMing.

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Best regards, Sergey Spiridonov

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