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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>2006-01-08 01:00:39 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-08 20:12:40 -0800
commit9d0243bca345d5ce25d3f4b74b7facb3a6df1232 (patch)
treea3a0a763bf83a483282dc1c3caab587941a98fc2 /Documentation/sysctl
parentbec6b0c89b234090681a4516e20ac5debe3e7c59 (diff)
[PATCH] drop-pagecache
Add /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. When written to, this will cause the kernel to discard as much pagecache and/or reclaimable slab objects as it can. THis operation requires root permissions. It won't drop dirty data, so the user should run `sync' first. Caveats: a) Holds inode_lock for exorbitant amounts of time. b) Needs to be taught about NUMA nodes: propagate these all the way through so the discarding can be controlled on a per-node basis. This is a debugging feature: useful for getting consistent results between filesystem benchmarks. We could possibly put it under a config option, but it's less than 300 bytes. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index 2f1aae32a5d9..89ba1a42a17d 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -26,12 +26,13 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm:
- min_free_kbytes
- laptop_mode
- block_dump
+- drop-caches
==============================================================
dirty_ratio, dirty_background_ratio, dirty_expire_centisecs,
dirty_writeback_centisecs, vfs_cache_pressure, laptop_mode,
-block_dump, swap_token_timeout:
+block_dump, swap_token_timeout, drop-caches:
See Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt