On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 13:03 -0700, Srija wrote:
> One of our  admin suggested  to use the following command.
> 
> free && sync && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && free 

In fact, a recent posting to LKML included a patch that prints a WARNing
when you do this, because it is not intended for the purpose of tuning a
system in this fashion and Google searches are missleading people.

Jon.


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