Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > http://www.linuxinsight.com/proc_sys_vm_drop_caches.html >> >> That URL claims that you need to run "sync" before dropping the cache, >> and so do other resources. I wonder if that means that dropping the >> cache is unsafe on a running system. > > It isn't unsafe, the OS just can't drop pages which haven't been > synced to disk so you won't get all the pages dropped unless you > sync first.
Thanks for the clarification. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
