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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches a good idea? Post 302462837 by erick_tuk on Friday 15th of October 2010 07:18:03 AM
Old 10-15-2010
echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches a good idea?

Hi folks.
I work with several production servers, and I have seen in some Kernel Cache using most of the memory.

See this pic:

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Do you think this is a smart choice? Remember these are productions servers and it is extremely necesary this does not cause any issues further.

Code:
sync; echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

 

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Cache::SharedMemoryCache(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			     Cache::SharedMemoryCache(3pm)

NAME
Cache::SharedMemoryCache -- extends the MemoryCache. DESCRIPTION
The SharedMemoryCache extends the MemoryCache class and binds the data store to shared memory so that separate process can use the same cache. The official recommendation is now to use FileCache instead of SharedMemoryCache. The reasons for this include: 1) FileCache provides equal or better performance in all cases that we've been able to test. This is due to all modern OS's ability to buffer and cache file system accesses very well. 2) FileCache has no real limits on cached object size or the number of cached objects, whereas the SharedMemoryCache has limits, and rather low ones at that. 3) FileCache works well on every OS, whereas the SharedMemoryCache works only on systems that support IPC::ShareLite. And IPC::ShareLite is an impressive effort -- but think about how hard it is to get shared memory working properly on *one* system. Now imagine writing a wrapper around shared memory for many operating systems. SYNOPSIS
use Cache::SharedMemoryCache; my %cache_options_= ( 'namespace' => 'MyNamespace', 'default_expires_in' => 600 ); my $shared_memory_cache = new Cache::SharedMemoryCache( \%cache_options ) or croak( "Couldn't instantiate SharedMemoryCache" ); METHODS
See Cache::Cache for the API documentation. OPTIONS
See Cache::Cache for the standard options. PROPERTIES
See Cache::Cache for the default properties. SEE ALSO
Cache::Cache, Cache::MemoryCache AUTHOR
Original author: DeWitt Clinton <dewitt@unto.net> Last author: $Author: dclinton $ Copyright (C) 2001-2003 DeWitt Clinton perl v5.12.4 2009-03-01 Cache::SharedMemoryCache(3pm)
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