On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Jeff Anderson <[email protected]>wrote: > > I've found the /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches location, but I'm not clear on > whether > this is a one-shot drop, or if it'll actually disable caching. If it's a > one > shot drop, it isn't terribly useful, but will help some if I drop once a > minute with cron. If needed, I'm happy to recompile the kernel, but I'd > rather > not have to. > > It is a one-time drop, but there's nothing to stop you from doing a: while true; do echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches ; sleep 1; done
-- Todd Millecam
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