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> 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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