thank you oh fishy one, gonna try it and report back
On 10/4/07, Damir Perisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wednesday 03 October 2007, Alexandros K-K wrote: > | what's the drop-all-cache command? > > sorry, that's a script of mine to tell the kernel to clean up a > little... i think it is already mentioned in this thread. basicly the > following: > > #! /bin/sh > . /etc/rc.d/functions > > IFS=$'\n' > > stat_busy "Dropping Caches" > # here be some checking if any cp, mv, dd are running > sync && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > stat_done > > | my results on ext3, with no pacman-optimize for a month, but > | updating the package db every day, went from 29 seconds to 800 > | milliseconds. that seems waaay too much improvement, maybe the > | result got cached? how do i drop it? > > with this command: > > sync && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > > it will sync and then tell the kernel to drop caches if possible. > > if you want to just drop the pagecache, send a "1", if you want to > drop dentries and inodes, send "2" - "3" drops all of them > > - D > > > -- > .·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´ > ° ° ° > ° ° ° > ><((((º> ° ° > ° ° > ° <º)))>< > <º)))>< > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > arch@archlinux.org > http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch >
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