Hi,
how can i clean the cache of RAM?
in modern linux i type:
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
but in DSL doesn't exist that file :^(
$ 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
$ 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.