Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965693AbWKHMzQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 07:55:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965694AbWKHMzQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 07:55:16 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:25522 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965693AbWKHMzO (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 07:55:14 -0500 Subject: Re: invalidate/drop filesystem caches & io buffers From: Arjan van de Ven To: Yakov Lerner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:55:12 +0100 Message-Id: <1162990512.3138.318.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1.1 (2.8.1.1-3.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 648 Lines: 16 On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 14:53 +0200, Yakov Lerner wrote: > I'd like to invalidate/free the filesystem caches and io buffer cache > How can I do this when I can't unmount the filesystem (and w/o reboot) ? echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/