Jan 21, 2015
Answer: Linux not freeing large disk cache when memory demand goes up #dev #solution #programming
Answer: Linux not freeing large disk cache when memory demand goes up #dev #solution #programming
Linux not freeing large disk cache when memory demand goes up
Running Ubuntu on a 2.6.31-302 x86-64 kernel. The overall problem is that I have memory in the ‘cached’ category that keeps on going up and will not be freed or used even when our application needs it.
So here’s what I get out of the ‘free’ command. None of this looks out of the ordinary at first glance.
# free total used free shared…
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