On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 01:48:36PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Well who knows. Could be that people's vm *does* suck. Or they have > some particularly peculiar worklosd or requirement[*]. Or their VM > *used* to suck, and the drop_caches is not really needed any more but > it's there in vendor-provided code and they can't practically prevent > it. I have drop_caches in my suspend-to-disk script so that the hibernation image is kept at minimum and suspend times are as small as possible. Would that be a valid use-case? -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>