linux-kernel - Re: VM - a plenty of inactive memory

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Message-ID: <cf40c6a90804091108v522bd757nb81e9f97fdc132fc@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:08:19 +0200
From:	"Andreas Grimm" <agrimm61@...il.com>
To:	"KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VM - a plenty of inactive memory

Hi Kosaki,

>  # echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
>
that frees exactly the 1,5Gigs in the buffers and the cache. Inactive
memory is still at 25GB.
Any other hint?

Andreas
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