Comment on Help, Linux ate my RAMparentComments−plaes14yYes, it was actually sort of a response to that webpage that said it was not possible to free this cached memory.The cache dropping is actually useful when you are doing benchmarking...−mjb14y> The cache dropping is actually useful when you are doing benchmarking...Agreed.My response was more to the "Let's Put 'echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' In Cron and Get Free RAM!!!!" thinking, which sadly seems to be widespread.
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Yes, it was actually sort of a response to that webpage that said it was not possible to free this cached memory.
The cache dropping is actually useful when you are doing benchmarking...
> The cache dropping is actually useful when you are doing benchmarking...
Agreed.
My response was more to the "Let's Put 'echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' In Cron and Get Free RAM!!!!" thinking, which sadly seems to be widespread.