Como parte de hacer algunos tiempos de caché en frío, estoy tratando de liberar el caché del sistema operativo. La documentación del kernel (recuperada en enero de 2019) dice:
drop_caches
Writing to this will cause the kernel to drop clean caches, as well as
reclaimable slab objects like dentries and inodes. Once dropped, their
memory becomes free.
To free pagecache:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
To free reclaimable slab objects (includes dentries and inodes):
echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
To free slab objects and pagecache:
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
This is a non-destructive operation and will not free any dirty objects.
To increase the number of objects freed by this operation, the user may run
`sync' prior to writing to /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. This will minimize the
number of dirty objects on the system and create more candidates to be
dropped.
This file is not a means to control the growth of the various kernel caches
(inodes, dentries, pagecache, etc...) These objects are automatically
reclaimed by the kernel when memory is needed elsewhere on the system.
Use of this file can cause performance problems. Since it discards cached
objects, it may cost a significant amount of I/O and CPU to recreate the
dropped objects, especially if they were under heavy use. Because of this,
use outside of a testing or debugging environment is not recommended.
You may see informational messages in your kernel log when this file is
used:
cat (1234): drop_caches: 3
These are informational only. They do not mean that anything is wrong
with your system. To disable them, echo 4 (bit 3) into drop_caches.
Soy un poco vago sobre los detalles. Corriendo
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
libera cache de página, dentries e inodes. Okay.
Entonces, si quiero que el sistema comience a almacenar en caché normalmente de nuevo, ¿debo restablecerlo a 0 primero? Mi sistema tiene el valor actualmente establecido en 0, que supongo es el predeterminado. ¿O se restablecerá solo? Veo al menos dos posibilidades aquí, y no estoy seguro de cuál es la verdadera:
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
libera cache de página, dentries e inodes. El sistema comienza inmediatamente a almacenar en caché nuevamente. No estoy seguro de qué esperaría que hiciera el valor/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
si este es el caso. ¿Volver a 0 casi de inmediato?Si
/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
se establece en 3, el sistema no realiza ningún almacenamiento en memoria caché hasta que se restablece a 0.
¿Qué caso es verdad?
sudo -i && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
, me sale un error: stdin: is not a tty
. Usar su método "sudo" funciona. ¿Por qué?
echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches