On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 09:34:57PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > Thanks. But maybe I was meaning something different. I simply want to speed > up the natural process through which the machine itself gets back to working > normally as before, like someone that breaths with difficulty after a > tremendous scare and it takes time to get breathing normally again. I was > asking if any command exists, to shorten that. I though `sync' was it, but > isn't.
You could try echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches after the sync command. > > 2015-07-11 18:04 GMT+02:00 Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com>: > > > > Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > After closing Midori, my old PC for minutes and minutes remains very > > > very slow. Then gradually, slowly, painfully, only after five or ten > > > minutes it starts working normally again. > > > > Then, to try to recover it, I do: > > > > $ sync > > > > , but this is not enough. Is there any command to get the processor back > > soon in its speed such as it was before opening the web browser? > > Apologises for not having the right technical terms... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150711220323.GA18674@side
