Hi On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Guo Hongruan <camelguo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Bizhan, > Do you notice that the buffers has increased (399440 - 262256 = 137184)? So > I think it is because the *badblock* reads the block device and causes the > VFS buffer cache grows. The VFS buffer cache just borrows your free memory > and will returns when necessary. ...And to drop the cache, I remember there is entry under /proc/sys/vm/...its name is probably "drop_cache". IIRC, echo 2 to that file means flushing out (implicitly means sync it first with the backing storage) page cache and buffer. regards, Mulyadi. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
