Hi
I am running in Issue that my total system RAM is 8GB. If I run command
free -m I get 6.0 Gb RAM
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 7554 5928 1626 0 123 4798
-/+ buffers 1006 6548
Swap: 1996 0 1996
Where as TOP command shows only procesess using 10% of RAM that is 1 GB. Now I read different blogs and understood that cache is also available RAM.
Then I tried to remove cache by ../cache_drops but RHEL3 dont support this command.
Keeping this in mind I allocated 4GB more to Apache Tomcat. Then I started but Tomcat failed to get this much memory. Although this should be free RAM.
I want to know how I can get rid of this CACHE and get memory to RAM.
Br
Osama
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Re: How do I clear RHEL3 Cache get allocation to RAM
2010-03-24T11:47:39Z
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I'm not sure I understand what problem you are trying to solve. It seems your system is only using a small part of RAM for actual work, so a lot if available for caching which should help performance of what is running. RHEL3 is now quite old and its support lifecycle (see Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle) ends in October 2010 (a little over six months from now),
If you are still concerned, you may be able to find more information from the slabtop or vmstat commands.
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Re: How do I clear RHEL3 Cache get allocation to RAM
2012-05-15T12:45:30Z
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Hi- ishields
- 2010-03-24T11:47:39Z
I'm not sure I understand what problem you are trying to solve. It seems your system is only using a small part of RAM for actual work, so a lot if available for caching which should help performance of what is running. RHEL3 is now quite old and its support lifecycle (see Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle) ends in October 2010 (a little over six months from now),
If you are still concerned, you may be able to find more information from the slabtop or vmstat commands.
Ian Shields
User the following command in redhat to clear the cache safely.
sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
Regards
B. Rathinakumar
rathinakumarb@gmail.com
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Re: How do I clear RHEL3 Cache get allocation to RAM
2012-09-06T06:47:44Z
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Hi,- M36C_Balasubramanian_Rathinaku
- 2012-05-15T12:45:30Z
Hi
User the following command in redhat to clear the cache safely.
sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
Regards
B. Rathinakumar
rathinakumarb@gmail.com
NSN
I hope below can be helpful.
Ensure that, you logged in with root user
- free -tom
- dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/cache1 bs=1024M count=2
- dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/cache2 bs=1024M count=2
- rm -rf /root/cache1 /root/cache1
- free -tom
Cheers,
Anil
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Re: How do I clear RHEL3 Cache get allocation to RAM
2012-11-04T03:53:13Z
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I've also wanted to check this out on the web.
There seems to be no relevant solution.
On the other hand, some guy on www.prodaft.com advised to use "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" -
Re: How do I clear RHEL3 Cache get allocation to RAM
2012-11-04T04:19:30Z
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By the way the subjected site "was" (not "is" http://www.prodaft.com.).- SystemAdmin
- 2012-11-04T03:53:13Z
I've also wanted to check this out on the web.
There seems to be no relevant solution.
On the other hand, some guy on www.prodaft.com advised to use "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"
I wanted to post the link as reference but looks like a totally different site atm.
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Re: How do I clear RHEL3 Cache get allocation to RAM
2013-01-23T05:53:16Z
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If you are not having memory you can go for external hard disk also.
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