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		plaes on March 13, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Help, Linux ate my RAM Yes, it was actually sort of a response to that webpage that said it was not possible to free this cached memory. The cache dropping is actually useful when you are doing benchmarking...

mjb on March 13, 2012 [–]

> The cache dropping is actually useful when you are doing benchmarking...

Agreed.

My response was more to the "Let's Put 'echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' In Cron and Get Free RAM!!!!" thinking, which sadly seems to be widespread.

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