On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 03:10:50PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090626193651.ga22...@cyrax.ece.utexas.edu>, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > >But I have seen some > >people reboot at regular intervals, since they feel it "flushes the > >memory" and keeps performance good, though I don't really believe that > >and can't comment on the veracity of those statements. :-) > > They are almost certainly hurting their total throughput. First, with the > downtime of the reboot. Second, with the having to repopulate file system > cache from disk. > > It is a fairly sure way to release space claimed by "ghost" files back to > the file system and memory claimed by persistent shared memory pools back to > RAM/swap, but both of those can often be handled without a reboot.
Makes sense. Thanks for confirming my hunch. Kumar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
