Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Jul 2005 13:31:40 +0200 | From | Diego Calleja <> | Subject | Re: Kernel cached memory |
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El Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:46:58 +0800, "Ashley" <ashleyz@alchip.com> escribió:
> from the output of command "free", I can see that many GB memory was cached > by kernel. Does anyone know how to free the kernel cached > memory? thanks in advance.
You don't want that. Kernel will free cached memory when apps need it. When there's a lot of free memory, linux always tries to use it for cache - because caches speed up things, and it's silly to to leave memory free if you can use it for caching. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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