Re: invalidate/drop filesystem caches & io buffers

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 14:53 +0200, Yakov Lerner wrote:
> I'd like to invalidate/free the filesystem caches and io buffer cache
> How can I do this when I can't unmount the filesystem (and w/o reboot) ?


echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

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