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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 3 |
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index d4773565ea2f2..a4dcf42c2fd93 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -1302,6 +1302,23 @@ VM has token based thrashing control mechanism and uses the token to prevent unnecessary page faults in thrashing situation. The unit of the value is second. The value would be useful to tune thrashing behavior. +drop_caches +----------- + +Writing to this will cause the kernel to drop clean caches, dentries and +inodes from memory, causing that memory to become free. + +To free pagecache: + echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches +To free dentries and inodes: + echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches +To free pagecache, dentries and inodes: + echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches + +As this is a non-destructive operation and dirty objects are not freeable, the +user should run `sync' first. + + 2.5 /proc/sys/dev - Device specific parameters ---------------------------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 2f1aae32a5d9d..89ba1a42a17da 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -26,12 +26,13 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - min_free_kbytes - laptop_mode - block_dump +- drop-caches ============================================================== dirty_ratio, dirty_background_ratio, dirty_expire_centisecs, dirty_writeback_centisecs, vfs_cache_pressure, laptop_mode, -block_dump, swap_token_timeout: +block_dump, swap_token_timeout, drop-caches: See Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt |