On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 14:08 -0800, Matt Helsley wrote: > Is drop_caches well-defined? IOW would it be permissible to > not actually drop all or any of the cache entries or to do nothing and > still report success instead of, say, EPERM, to a container? It's really just a hint or a request. It's possible that an echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches returns '2' (for the two bytes written), indicating success and yet, not a single object was freed. There's currently no way to tell how much work it did, or to figure out why it did a certain amount of work. Frankly, in a container, it probably just shouldn't even show up in /proc. -- Dave _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
