Hi all,

 

Being unfamiliar with Linux everything I do has to be taken from the forums. I have cache-dirs running but would like to stop it without rebooting the server.

 

How can this be done and the memory flushed?

 

Cheers,

D

Hi all,

 

Being unfamiliar with Linux everything I do has to be taken from the forums. I have cache-dirs running but would like to stop it without rebooting the server.

 

How can this be done and the memory flushed?

 

Cheers,

D

You type

cache_dirs -q

and it will terminate itself.

 

Memory used is in the disk buffer cache.  You can free the entire disk buffer cache by typing:

sync

echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

 

Thanks for the prompt response Joe!

 

Much appreciated.