drop_caches in SLES 9 ?

2009-05-08 Thread Tomasz Westrych
Hi all, How to clear memory cache in Sles 9 ? In SLES10 you can do echo 3 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. In SLES9 I, don't see drop_caches. We have z/VM 5.4 + SLES9 version 2.6.5-7.244-s390x. Thanks, Tom -- Dzwonki na komorkj!

Re: drop_caches in SLES 9 ?

2009-05-08 Thread Rob van der Heij
2009/5/8 Tomasz Westrych tomw...@poczta.fm: How to clear memory cache in Sles 9 ? In SLES10 you can do echo 3 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. In SLES9 I, don't see drop_caches. We have z/VM 5.4  + SLES9 version 2.6.5-7.244-s390x. Right. This is a more recent addition to Linux memory management,

Re: drop_caches in SLES 9 ?

2009-05-08 Thread Brad Hinson
Rob van der Heij wrote: 2009/5/8 Tomasz Westrych tomw...@poczta.fm: How to clear memory cache in Sles 9 ? In SLES10 you can do echo 3 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. In SLES9 I, don't see drop_caches. We have z/VM 5.4 + SLES9 version 2.6.5-7.244-s390x. Right. This is a more recent addition to

Re: drop_caches in SLES 9 ?

2009-05-08 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Brad Hinson bhin...@redhat.com wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444961 Patch was committed to 2.6.25-mm1, so for anyone making heavy use of drop_caches, make sure to update to RHEL 5.3 (or the kernel at least). Right. Thanks Brad. I should