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« on: October 22, 2014, 08:36:19 AM »

Hi,
how can i clean the cache of RAM?

in modern linux i type:
Code:
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

but in DSL doesn't exist that file  :^(
Code:
$ ls -lh /proc/sys/vm/
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Oct 20 22:22 bdflush
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Oct 20 22:22 block_dump
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Oct 20 22:22 kswapd
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Oct 20 22:22 laptop_mode
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Oct 20 22:22 max-readahead
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Oct 20 22:22 max_map_count
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Oct 20 22:22 min-readahead
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Oct 20 22:22 overcommit_memory
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Oct 20 22:22 page-cluster
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Oct 20 22:22 pagetable_cache
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Oct 20 22:22 vm_anon_lru
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Oct 20 22:22 vm_cache_scan_ratio
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Oct 20 22:22 vm_gfp_debug
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Oct 20 22:22 vm_lru_balance_ratio
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Oct 20 22:22 vm_mapped_ratio
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Oct 20 22:22 vm_passes
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Oct 20 22:22 vm_vfs_scan_ratio
Code:
$ top
[H[JMem: 30408K used, 88144K free, 0K shrd, 1500K buff, 14740K cached
Load average: 0.36 0.14 0.05  (Status: S=sleeping R=running, W=waiting)
[7m  PID USER     STATUS   RSS  PPID %CPU %MEM COMMAND[0m
  419 root     S       4956   418  0.9  4.1 Xvesa
  369 dsl      S       1692     1  0.0  1.4 bash
  422 dsl      S       1592   418  0.0  1.3 jwm
  446 dsl      S       1536   445  0.0  1.2 bash
  445 dsl      S       1508     1  0.0  1.2 aterm
  405 dsl      S       1084   369  0.0  0.9 startx
  443 dsl      S        924     1  0.0  0.7 torsmo
  450 dsl      R        728   446  0.0  0.6 top
   63 root     S        712     1  0.0  0.5 cardmgr
  364 root     S        664     1  0.0  0.5 pump
  418 dsl      S        644   405  0.0  0.5 xinit
  354 root     S        560     1  0.0  0.4 syslogd
    1 root     S         76     0  0.0  0.0 init
    2 root     SW         0     1  0.0  0.0 keventd
    6 root     SW         0     1  0.0  0.0 kupdated
    3 root     SWN        0     1  0.0  0.0 ksoftirqd_CPU0
    4 root     SW         0     1  0.0  0.0 kswapd
    5 root     SW         0     1  0.0  0.0 bdflush
   68 root     SW         0     1  0.0  0.0 khubd
   80 root     SW         0     1  0.0  0.0 knodemgrd_0


Thanks.
« Last Edit: October 22, 2014, 08:43:09 AM by lodger » Logged
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« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2014, 09:35:22 PM »

The man page (http://ftp://ftp.alaska.edu/pub/sois/man/drop_caches.html) indicates that "drop_caches" was only included in Linux Kernel V. 2.6.16 and later. DSL uses Kernel V. 2.4.31.

I don't know if there is another command used in earlier Kernels, but I doubt it.

DSL-N uses a 2.6 kernel (I can't remember if it was above 2.6.16, I think so), that could be another option depending on your circumstances.
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