Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
It isn't unsafe, the OS just can't drop pages which haven't been synced to disk so you won't get all the pages dropped unless you sync first. -- Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
