[Tfug] Purging the Linux Cache

[John Kiniston]

Quickest way I can think of would be to reboot.

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Felix Tilley <fetilley at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Is there any way to purge the Linux cache?  I find no Linux utilities or
>  header files.
>
>
>  free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>  Mem:        516240     398852     117388          0      31992     294308
>  -/+ buffers/cache:      72552     443688
>  Swap:      2064304         24    2064280
>
>
>  Felix in Tucson
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