linux-kernel - Re: invalidate/drop filesystem caches & io buffers

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Date:	Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:55:12 +0100
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Yakov Lerner <iler.ml@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: invalidate/drop filesystem caches & io buffers

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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