[Centos] cache flush command
Dag Wieers
dag at wieers.com
Tue Sep 28 00:36:23 UTC 2004
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, William Warren wrote:
> is there a CLI command you can pass to a linux system(specifically CentOS 3)
> that will force it to flush the memory file cache and/or swap file without
> rebooting?
If you want to flush the filesystem buffers, try:
sync
If you want to get rid of your swap, you could try:
swapoff -a
But make sure you have sufficient physical memory to do that.
If this was not what you asked for, please rephrase :)
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