tgunr/drop-caches.sh

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and wait (your prompt won't return immediately, but other processes will continue to run). It will slowly unload the caches (2.5 min for my 24GB cache on 2 pair of raid 1'd 2TB WD blacks on a 2Ghz 4 year old cpu on a box w/64GB) - beware, you will su

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drop-caches.sh

echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

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