On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 09:47:38PM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: > > >> Someone suggested cat [1|3] >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. > > > > echo, not cat. It does work every time, whether you see anything > > obvious or not. And if you want to reclaim inodes, then you want > > "echo 2 > ..." > ---- > Erk...meant echo... too much draino on the braino > (doesn't 3 include '2'? I thought it was a bit mask?) Yes, it is a bit mask. 1 = page cache, 2 = slab cache, 3 = both. Inode reclaim is part of the slab cache reclaim, so page cache reclaim won't make any difference to the behaviour at all. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
