Friday, February 6, 2015

linux - What is the interrest of playing with drop_caches?

I've seen sysadmins playing with /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches (echo 3 into this file from a cron) in order to free caches.
Is there a real interrest in doing this? Aren't the clean caches reclaimed when needed?



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