Free kernel memory

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 06:12:10PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
> On 6/1/06, klussier at comcast.net <klussier at comcast.net> wrote:
> >I am looking for a way to flush the cached memory from a system.
> 
>  Why?
> 
>  Serious question.  Linux normally does a pretty good job of managing
> memory.  If nothing else is using the memory, it gets used for
> caching.  Why install all that RAM if you're not going to use it,
> after all.  As soon as a process allocates more memory, the cache will
> be released for that.

And if it doesn't, /proc/sys/vm/swapiness will let you tell it to be
more aggressive in handing this cache over to applications, I believe.
Although I can't remember exactly.

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Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer