Thread: System Slow Down Every 3 Days - Possible Memory Leak?
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2010-07-21 , 20:45
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Originally Posted by noipv4 View Post
Try these steps too.

http://www.linuxinsight.com/proc_sys...op_caches.html

Writing to this will cause the kernel to drop clean caches, dentries and inodes from memory, causing that memory to become free.
Sigh, not "RAM maximizer" programs again. The only thing this does is to temporarily increase the amount of _unused_ (aka wasted) RAM, normally used in preparation of an hibernation/s2disk.

The net result after it is that the system is _slower_ instead of faster, as it will have to fetch all files from the NAND/eMMC again.

The option is completely useless for any reason other than hardware related (need big physically continuous buffer for XXX operation, need to reduce dirty/cached size because I want to s2disk*) or benchmarking.

*And it's not recommended for recent uswsusp, tuxonice.
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