Doubt on echo 1 >> /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

[Abhishek Rane]

Thanks a lot guys that info was really helpful..The blog was also 
great.. :-)

Cheers,
Abhishek

Jon Stanley wrote:
> On 12/21/07, Gijs <info at boer-software-en-webservices.nl> wrote:
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>> And yes, it is safe to do.
>>     
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> Safe, but not recommended.  I can't see any real-world use for this.
> The only practical use of which I'm aware is if you are doing I/O
> benchmarking and you want to test the actual speed of the I/O, as
> opposed to the efficacy of the pagecache.  On a normal system, the
> pagecache dramatically increases performance by not having to go to
> disk for filesystem data or metadata, depending on what cache you're
> looking at.
>
> For a detailed explanation of the values, check out my blog at
> http://jons-thoughts.blogspot.com/2007/09/tip-of-day-dropcaches.html
>
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