Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you are running linux > 2.6.18 then you can use > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches for exactly that purpose. > > 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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list